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PLAYBACK.
by CHANDLER, RAYMOND
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About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton, [1958]., 1958. First edition. First edition. Fine in a bright dust jacket lightly rubbed at spine ends, but with none of the usual spine fading. The final installment of the Philip Marlowe canon. Marlowe is hired to tail a redhead arriving on a train. Without really knowing why or who he is working for, Marlow follows the woman to San Diego. Suddenly he is faced with mysterious murders, disappearing bodies, and a sinister fellow private eye who is also tailing the same woman. An exceptional copy.
Synopsis
Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never herd of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but decides he prefers to 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 MacdonaldFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- BUCKINGHAM BOOKS
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37650
- Title
- PLAYBACK.
- Author
- CHANDLER, RAYMOND
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton, [1958].
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1958
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- First Edition
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