by Raymond Chandler · Bruguera · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788402057952
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«Playback» is the crime novel by Raymond Chandler, published by Bruguera in paperback (219 pages, in Spanish).
Detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a lawyer to follow Eleanor King, a mysterious redhead acquitted of the murder of her alcoholic husband. What starts as a simple job gets complicated by a corpse, blackmail, lies and a case of mistaken identity.
Seventh novel in the Philip Marlowe detective series, part of the Libro Amigo collection (Crime Fiction, 20). Translated by María Teresa Segur.
For readers of classic crime fiction and fans of Philip Marlowe.
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.
