The first incident, with the secretary, is slightly justified by establishing how Marlowe still thinks of Loren, to appear again at the end, but I could have done without it more happily.

It was bad enough in Farewell, My Lovely. There was no point in competing with Spillane. Playback: A Graphic Novel by Raymond Chandler, Ted Benoit, François Ayroles eBook (Digital Original) 8.99 9. Maybe the first is unnecessary at that-it doesn't seem like a sufficient occasion for someone to draw a gun, & what was Marlowe hoping to accomplish, anyway? But now as the violence is toned down, suddenly the sex gets turned up. He toned that down in the novels, The Big Sleep is the only one in which Marlowe actually kills anyone, & there are just two fights in Playback. Playback by Raymond Chandler - Penguin Books Australia Play sample Published: 31 March 2011 ISBN: 9780241956250 Penguin General UK Pages: 208 22. 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 forthcoming 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. The trouble with the short stories is that (no doubt because the pulps required it) every time the narrator goes through a door, there's bound to be either a corpse or somebody with a gun on the other side. It's rather short, as if he was never able to work up much interest. I just read Playback for the first time this month, having read & re-read other Chandler novels & short stories for years.

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