His books include The Big Sleep, The Little Sister, Farewell, My Lovely, The Long Good-bye, The Lady in the Lake, Playback, Killer in the Rain, The High Window and Trouble is My Business. 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. 'Anything Chandler writes about 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 Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. 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. 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. And wherever Miss King goes, trouble seems to follow. Blond and beautiful Betty Mayfield has just been found guilty of murdering her husband. Playback finds Marlowe mixing business with pleasure - getting paid to follow a mysterious and lovely red-head named Eleanor King. Playback Raymond Chandler, Ted Benoit, Franois Ayroles Book details Table of contents Citations About This Book This graphic novel adaptation of Chandler's never-produced film script tells the tale of a woman running for her life and a murder in Vancouver. 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 is a classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime.

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