Description
The Details:
In very good condition. Mild tanning. Price clipped. Bookshop stamp inside. Dust jacket in very good condition apart from some rubbing. Red cloth with silver lettering on spine. Boards in near fine condition.
The Story:
As ‘PLAYBACK’, Chandler’s last novel opens, Philip Marlowe meets Eleanor King (a.k.a. Betty Mayfield) as she disembarks from the Super Chief and leads him to the California coast to solve a tale of big money and, of course, murder.
The Author:
Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature, and is considered by many to be a founder, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and other Black Mask writers, of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction. Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, along with Hammett’s Sam Spade, are considered by some to be synonymous with “private detective,” both having been played on screen by Humphrey Bogart, whom many considered to be the quintessential Marlowe. (goodreads)
