- Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Fiction, Large type books
Philip Marlowe marries a rich, beautiful society lady who wants him to settle down. But old habits die hard, and Marlowe soon is back in business, enmeshed in a case involving pornography, bigamy, and murder.
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Raymond Chandler
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 268
- Publisher
- Putnam, Futura, Proszynski i s-ka
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- Polish, English, Japanese
- ISBN
- 9780896219779
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