Book 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… 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.
