by Raymond Chandler · Edicions 62 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429744156
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«Playback» is the crime novel by Raymond Chandler, published by Edicions 62 in paperback (184 pages, in Catalan).
Detective Philip Marlowe meets Eleanor King, an enigmatic redhead who has just gotten off the Super Chief train, and agrees to follow her to the California coast. There, amid a plot involving large sums of money and a murder, Marlowe must decide whether to help the woman or fulfill his duty to the man who hired him.
Seventh installment in the Philip Marlowe series, originally published in English in 1958; Catalan edition from the Butxaca collection.
For readers of classic crime fiction and fans of detective Philip Marlowe and Raymond Chandler.
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.
