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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 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, Raymond Chandler, Kathy Reichs
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- Released
- 2006
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- Title
- Playback
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Raymond Chandler, Kathy Reichs
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 208
- ISBN10
- 0140108971
- ISBN13
- 9780140108972
- Series
- Collection
- Knihy o přírodě
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Thriller, Classics, American Literature, Detective Fiction, Detective, Noir, Private Detective, Classicism
- First published
- 1958
- Original title
- Playback
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- 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�