the black eyed blonde a philip marlowe novel

Agent: Ed Victor, Ed Victor Literary Agency (U.K.). Then a new client is shown in: young, beautiful, and expensively dressed, she wants Marlowe to find her former lover, a man named Nico Peterson. While the mystery is well plotted, Black elevates it beyond mere thoughtful homage with a plausible injection of emotion in his wounded lead. : The Black Eyed Blonde: A Philip Marlowe Novel (9781447238041) by Benjamin Black and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. 439 pages (large print) 23 cm It is the early 1950s, Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and business is a little slow. The case appears to wrap up quickly after Marlowe learns that Peterson was the victim of a hit-and-run, but Cavendish has some major revelations in store. When Marlowe shakes hands with someone, “It was like being given a sleek, cool-skinned animal to hold for a moment or two.” The title character, Clare Cavendish, wanders into Marlowe’s office to ask him to trace her lover, Nico Peterson, who disappeared two months earlier. As for the language, Black nails Chandler’s creative and memorable similes and metaphors. Parker’s lengthy experience in the PI genre, his sequel to The Big Sleep, Perchance to Dream, pales in comparison with Black’s pitch-perfect recreation of the character and his time and place.

Only Benjamin Black, a modern master of the genre, could write a new Philip Marlowe novel that has all the panache and charm of the originals while delivering a story that is as sharp and fresh as today's best crime fiction.Black (the pseudonym that John Banville uses for his crime fiction) isn’t the first to tackle the daunting challenge of recreating the distinctive narrative voice of Raymond Chandler’s world-weary, mean streets–walking L.A. The black-eyed blonde : a Philip Marlowe novel by Black, Benjamin, 1945- author. Almost immediately, Marlowe discovers that the man's disappearance is merely the first in a series of bewildering events, and soon he is tangling with one of Bay City's richest―and most ruthless―families. Then a new client is shown in: blond, beautiful, and expensively dressed, she wants Marlowe to find her former lover. The Black-Eyed Blonde, A Philip Marlowe Novel Black, Benjamin (Pseudonym Of John Banville) Published by Henry Holt and Co. It is the early 1950s, Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and business is a little slow. Channeling Raymond Chandler, Benjamin Black has brought Marlowe back to life for a new adventure on the mean streets of Bay City, California. IT WAS LIKE HAVING AN OLD FRIEND, ONE YOU ASSUMED WAS DEAD, WALK INTO THE ROOM.'―Stephen King'It was one of those summer Tuesday afternoons when you begin to wonder if the earth has stopped revolving.' So begins a new novel featuring Philip Marlowe―yes, that Philip Marlowe.

The black eyed blonde a philip marlowe novel