PLAYBACK - Softcover

Chandler, Raymond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345251695 ISBN 13: 9780345251695

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1976

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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Review

'Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the [start].' (The Daily Telegraph)

'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain.' (The Sunday Times)

'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes.' (Anthony Burgess)

About the Author

Ray Porter has garnered two Audie Award nominations and a multitude of enthusiastic reviews for his sparkling narration of audiobooks. In addition, he has appeared in numerous films and television shows, including Frasier, ER, Will & Grace, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and Almost Famous. A fifteen-year veteran of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, he lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0345251695
• ISBN 13: 9780345251695
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback