by Raymond Chandler · DEBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788490325742
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«Adiós, muñeca» is a hardcover crime novel by Raymond Chandler, published by Debolsillo (472 pages, in Spanish).
Philip Marlowe investigates the disappearance of a red-haired singer and becomes embroiled in a homicide and a web of gambling debts in 1940s Los Angeles. The case forces him to move among police, gangsters and corrupt characters, in a world where violence erupts before questions.
Second installment in the Philip Marlowe series. This edition also brings together the three pulp stories «El hombre que amaba a los perros», «Busquen a la chica» and «El jade del mandarín».
For those seeking classic mystery with a hard-boiled detective and mid-twentieth-century Californian atmosphere.
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.
