Over the last three decades, the Chandler estate has selected other wordsmiths to appropriate the detective for use in their own books. Paired with the recent publication of The Annotated Big Sleep , it reminds us that the streets down which Marlowe tramps may be mean, but they sure have carried him a long way. Below are eight books by authors other than Chandler, all of which imagine either Marlowe or the author himself hunting for clues and criminals.
Parker When he passed away, Chandler left behind the first four chapters of an eighth Marlowe novel tentatively titled The Poodle Springs Story. Thirty years later, Robert B. Marlowe soon unmasks Valentine as a bigamist, with a surplus household in L.
Perchance to Dream by Robert B. Irishman John Banville, under his mystery-writing Black pseudonym , delivers us back to sun-flogged L. She says her paramour, Nico Peterson, a Hollywood talent agent short on talent and long on caddish impulses, vanished two months ago.
She wants him back. So why, Clare counters, did she recently spot him in San Francisco? Out there in the night of a thousand crimes, people were dying, being maimed, cut by flying glass, crushed against steering wheels or under heavy tires. People were being beaten, robbed, strangled, raped, and murdered. People were hungry, sick; bored, desperate with loneliness or remorse or fear, angry, cruel, feverish, shaken by sobs. A city no worse than others, a city rich and vigorous and full of pride, a city lost and beaten and full of emptiness.
It all depends on where you sit and what your own private score is. I finished the drink and went to bed. The sidewalk in front of it had been built of black and white rubber blocks. They were taking them up now to give to the government, and a hatless pale man with a face like a building superintendent was watching the work and looking as if it was breaking his heart.
Farewell, My Lovely Buy this book Kindle it! The High Window Buy this book Kindle it! The Lady in the Lake Buy this book Kindle it! The Little Sister Buy this book Kindle it!
The Long Goodbye Buy this book Kindle it! Playback Buy this book Kindle it! The book is partially narrated by Marlowe; Chandler himself shows up, and Marlowe and he offer plenty of thoughts on politics, screenwriting, detective fiction and Dashiell Hammett.
Contreris was a Uruguayan writer who was imprisoned for his political beliefs in the s, when the seeds for this novel were planted.
Marlowe is slightly over six feet about centimetres tall and weighs about pounds 86 kilograms. His office is number on the 6th floor of the Cahuenga Building, which is located on Hollywood Boulevard near Ivar. The office telephone number is GLenview Marlowe's office is modest and he doesn't have a secretary unlike his contemporary, Sam Spade. He generally refuses to take divorce cases. He smokes and prefers Camels.
At home, he sometimes smokes a pipe. He is also an adept chess player. He drinks whiskey or brandy frequently and in relatively large quantities. For example, in " The High Window ", he gets out a bottle of Four Roses, and pours glasses of the blended American whiskey for himself, for Det. Best known as: The hard-boiled hero of Farewell, My Lovely and other novels. Philip Marlowe Biography Fictional Detective. Related Stories. Thrilling Detective: Philip Marlowe.
Swell introduction to the character; don't miss the links to Marlowe on film, radio and TV.
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