Playback

Raymond Chandler, Kathy Reichs

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Penguin
31 March 2011

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery

Series: Phillip Marlowe

The classic Chandler mystery - reissued now in B format

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 . . .

By: Raymond Chandler
Introduction by: Kathy Reichs
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 151g
ISBN: 9780241956250
ISBN 10: 0241956250
Series: Phillip Marlowe
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 31 March 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.