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Phillip Marlowe (Related to this series)
- Author
- Raymond Chandler
- Narrator
- Scott Brick
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 17 June 2021
- Run Time
- 5 hours 27 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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'I know it sounds corny, but I could drill you and get away with it.'
'Okay,' I said thickly. 'For fifty bucks a day I don't get shot. That costs seventy-five.'
Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is mixing business with pleasure - he's getting paid to follow a lovely mysterious redhead called Eleanor King. And wherever Miss King goes, trouble is sure to follow. But she's easy on the eye and Marlowe's happy to do as he's told. 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 . . .
Playback is Raymond Chandler's last full-length novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe.
'Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since' Paul Auster
'Chandler grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph
'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times
'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess
© Raymond Chandler 1988 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
User Reviews
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Narration 5.0
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Great narration of a brilliant novel by a unique talent in the field of crime fiction. Every character jumps off every page. The acerbic wit of Chandler is virtually unmatched in literature but in Playback the author allows us to witness a side of Marlowe never before displayed - the belief that happiness is possible through the darkness of corruption and evil. I loved this novel in a different way from the rest because it chose to have a resolved and happy ending, and not in a coy or trite way.
Thomas Reilly 2025-10-07
Details
- Author
- Raymond Chandler
- Narrator
- Scott Brick
- Duration
- 5 hours 27 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 June 2021
- ISBN
- 9780241989401
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.'I know it sounds corny, but I could drill you and get away with it.''Okay,' I said thickly. 'For fifty bucks a day I don't get shot. That costs seventy-five.' Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is mixing business with pleasure - he's getting paid to follow a lovely mysterious redhead called Eleanor King. And wherever Miss King goes, trouble is sure to follow. But she's easy on the eye and Marlowe's happy to do as he's told. 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 . . .Playback is Raymond Chandler's last full-length novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe.'Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since' Paul Auster'Chandler grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph 'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess© Raymond Chandler 1988 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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