- Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character), Private investigators
This is one of Chandler’s most famous crime novels featuring the detective Philip Marlowe, who’s about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.
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Classical in form, cool, plot-driven and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Raymond Chandler
- First published
- 1940
- Pages
- 266
- Publisher
- Bruguera, Penguin Books, Limited, Ballantine
- Editions
- 58
- Language
- Polish, Portuguese, English, German
- ISBN
- 9798507574407
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