Playback - Vintage Crime

1st Vintage Books Edition

Paperback (12 Aug 1988)

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Publisher's Synopsis

The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe  Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.

In noir master Raymond Chandler's Playback, Philip Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never heard of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but then decides he'd rather help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it.

"Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence:" -- Ross Macdonald

Book information

ISBN: 9780394757667
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Vintage Books Edition
DEWEY: 813.52
DEWEY edition: 19
Language: English
Number of pages: 166
Weight: 159g
Height: 203mm
Width: 133mm
Spine width: 13mm