Crime fiction master Raymond Chandler's final novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times).
In noir master Raymond Chandler's Playback, Philip Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never heard of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but then decides he'd rather help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it.
"Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence:" -- Ross Macdonald
The last completed novel by Raymond Chandler; Playback is somewhat less impressive than all the other Philip Marlowe novels. While still enjoyable it just didn’t have the same feel as some of his better known works, like The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye, Farewell, My Lovely or The Lady in the Lake. It is one book that people either enjoyed or hated but in my case I did enjoy it, as all other hardboiled novels I’ve read. The banter before Marlowe and Miss Vermilyea alone make this book worth reading.
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