Playback - Raymond Chandler

Crime fiction master Raymond Chandler's final novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the quintessential urban private eye ( Los Angeles Times ). 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