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by Kathy Reichs (Introduction), Raymond Chandler (Author)

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    Paperback 1989

    $4.22

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    Paperback 1991

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Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 208
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Penguin
Published: 25 May 1989
ISBN 10: 0140108971
ISBN 13: 9780140108972

Media Reviews
Raymond Chandler is a master. -- The New York Times [Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered. -- The New Yorker Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious. --Robert B. Parker, The New York Times Book Review Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye. -- Los Angeles Times Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist. -- The Boston Book Review Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandler's prose. . . . He wrote like an angel. -- Literary Review [T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision. --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence. --Ross Macdonald Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude. --Erle Stanley Gardner Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since. --Paul Auster [Chandler]'s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world that's like ours, but isn't. --Carolyn See
Author Bio
Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction.