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Philip Marlowe
Henry Holt
March 2014
On Sale: March 4, 2014
Featuring: Phillip Marlowe
304 pages
ISBN: 0805098143
EAN: 9780805098143
Kindle: B00ERQ6RGY
Hardcover / e-Book
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Mystery Hard Boiled
Raymond Chandler’s incomparable private eye is back,
pulled by a seductive young heiress into the most difficult
and dangerous case of his career “It was one of
those summer Tuesday afternoons when you begin to wonder if
the earth has stopped revolving. The telephone on my desk
had the look of something that knows it’s being watched.
Traffic trickled by in the street below, and there were a
few pedestrians, too, men in hats going nowhere.” So
begins The Black-Eyed Blonde, a new novel featuring
Philip Marlowe—yes, that Philip Marlowe. Channeling Raymond
Chandler, Benjamin Black has brought Marlowe back to life
for a new adventure on the mean streets of Bay City,
California. It is the early 1950s, Marlowe is as restless
and lonely as ever, and business is a little slow. Then a
new client is shown in: young, beautiful, and expensively
dressed, she wants Marlowe to find her former lover, a man
named Nico Peterson. Marlowe sets off on his search, but
almost immediately discovers that Peterson’s disappearance
is merely the first in a series of bewildering events. Soon
he is tangling with one of Bay City’s richest families and
developing a singular appreciation for how far they will go
to protect their fortune. Only Benjamin Black, a
modern master of the genre, could write a new Philip Marlowe
novel that has all the panache and charm of the originals
while delivering a story that is as sharp and fresh as
today’s best crime fiction.
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