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Playback

By Raymond Chandler, Kathy Reichs (Contributor)

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| eBook | 9780141931548

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Stalking the tawdry neon wilderness of forties and fifties Los Angeles, Raymond Chandler’s hard-drinking, wise-cracking Phillip Marlowe is one of the world’s most famous fictional detectives.

‘Playback’ finds Marlowe mixing business with pleasure – getting paid to fol Continue

Stalking the tawdry neon wilderness of forties and fifties Los Angeles, Raymond Chandler’s hard-drinking, wise-cracking Phillip Marlowe is one of the world’s most famous fictional detectives.

‘Playback’ finds Marlowe mixing business with pleasure – getting paid to follow a mysterious and lovely red-head named Eleanor King. And wherever Miss King goes, trouble seems to follow. But she’s easy on the eye and Marlowe’s happy to do as he’s told, all in the name of chivalry, of course. 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…

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  • Playback By Raymond Chandler

    LAPD detective Harry Bosch is a good cop and a good guy. He's tough, serious and wants to make a difference in this indifferent world. If you haven't met him before, you've missed out, and if you have, you know you're tuning in to prime time crime. C ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Mon, 13 Sep 2010

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  • First Chandler I ever read. Although I don't have much recollection of what the plot was about, I certainly was hooked by the witty first-person narration and the dialogue.

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  • The covers of this series, designed by James Tormey, incorporate material supplied courtesy of 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers and R.K.O. Pictures.

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