- Private investigators, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction in English, Fiction
Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the 1940s and 1950s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily.
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Classical in form, relentless, cool and plot-driven.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Raymond Chandler
- First published
- 1942
- Pages
- 231
- Publisher
- Hamilton, Hamish Hamilton, Phoenix Books
- Editions
- 32
- Language
- Portuguese, dan, English, Swedish
- ISBN
- 9781400030170
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