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Playback is Raymond Chandler''s gripping last full-length novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe.

''Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since'' Paul Auster

Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is mixing business with pleasure - he''s getting paid to follow a lovely mysterious redhead called Eleanor King. And wherever Miss King goes, trouble is sure to follow. But she''s easy on the eye and Marlowe''s happy to do as he''s told. But one dead body later and what started out as a lazy afternoon''s snooping soon becomes a deadly cocktail of blackmail, lies, mistaken identity - and murder . . .


''Chandler grips the mind from the first sentence'' Daily Telegraph

''One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain'' Sunday Times

''Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes'' Anthony Burgess

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    A Paperback / softback by Raymond Chandler, Kathy Reichs

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: 31/03/2011
      ISBN13: 9780241956250, 978-0241956250
      ISBN10: 0241956250

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Playback is Raymond Chandler''s gripping last full-length novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe.

      ''Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since'' Paul Auster

      Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is mixing business with pleasure - he''s getting paid to follow a lovely mysterious redhead called Eleanor King. And wherever Miss King goes, trouble is sure to follow. But she''s easy on the eye and Marlowe''s happy to do as he''s told. But one dead body later and what started out as a lazy afternoon''s snooping soon becomes a deadly cocktail of blackmail, lies, mistaken identity - and murder . . .


      ''Chandler grips the mind from the first sentence'' Daily Telegraph

      ''One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain'' Sunday Times

      ''Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes'' Anthony Burgess

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