Playback

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

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Published: 08/12/1988
ISBN: 9780394757667
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.21w x 0.51d

Review Citations: Library Journal 07/01/2002 pg. 128
Library Journal 07/15/2002