- Fiction, Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories
Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, which involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder
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Classical in form, cool, grave and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Raymond Chandler
- First published
- 1939
- Pages
- 229
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Grapevine India, Phoenix Books
- Editions
- 116
- Language
- German, bul, Italian, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9781597770521
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- Fiction
- Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character)
- Private investigators
- Detective and mystery stories
- Women
- General
- Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled
- Marlowe, philip (fictitious character), fiction
- California, fiction
- Los angeles (calif.), fiction
- Private investigators, fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
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