by Raymond Chandler · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140108972
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«Playback» is the crime novel by Raymond Chandler, published by Penguin in paperback (208 pages, in English).
Detective Philip Marlowe takes on a seemingly simple job: to follow Eleanor King, an enigmatic redhead newly arrived in a coastal town. He soon discovers the woman hides a turbulent past and that lies and blackmail multiply around her. When the case leads to murder, Marlowe must separate truth from appearances.
Seventh novel in the Philip Marlowe series, originally published in 1958.
For readers of classic mystery and followers of Philip Marlowe's investigations.
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime. All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once.
