- Private investigators, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction, Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character)
Set in Los Angeles, private eye Philip Marlowe moves deeper than ever into labyrinths of crime, duplicity, and murder.
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Classical in form, grave, cool and nostalgic.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Robert B. Parker
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 271
- Publisher
- Thorndike Press, Redback Audiobooks, Dove
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781560541868
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