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FREE THE LADY IN THE LAKE, THE LITTLE SISTER, THE LONG GOODBYE, PLAYBACK: VOLUME 2 PDF Raymond Chandler,Tom Hiney | 1008 pages | 26 Sep 2002 | Everyman | 9781857152562 | English | London, United Kingdom Everyman Classics - Everyman's Library Playback is a novel by Raymond Chandler featuring the private detective Philip Marlowe. Chandler died The Lady in the Lake following year; Playback The Lady in the Lake his last completed novel. Marlowe is faced with the choice The Little Sister turning against his client and taking up the cause of the subject he was hired to The Lady in the Lake, an attractive woman on the run with whom he eventually becomes emotionally entangled. Through intermediaries, an anonymous client hires Marlowe to find Betty Mayfield, who is traveling under the name Eleanor King. Marlowe trails Mayfield to the small coastal resort town of Esmeralda, California. During her train ride west, Mayfield had The Long Goodbye recognized by a man The Lady in the Lake then tried to blackmail her, for reasons disclosed at the end of the story. While Marlowe is poking around Esmeralda, the blackmailer is found dead on the balcony of Mayfield's hotel room. She panics and calls Marlowe for help. Marlowe encounters numerous characters with dubious motivations, including a taciturn lawyer and his smart secretary with whom Marlowe has a sexual encountera "retired" gangster, overconfident would-be tough guys of varying morals, a hired killer whose wrists Marlowe smashesdecent police officers, and an affectingly desperate example of the immigrant underclass in the United States in the s. Marlowe also has The Little Sister encounter in a hotel lobby with a reflective elderly gentleman, Henry Clarendon IV, which gives rise to an extended philosophical conversation. Lee's neck had been broken during the warand though he was mobile and not paralyzed, for safety he regularly wore a neck brace. One day there was a quarrel between Lee and Betty, and later Lee was found dead, with Betty trying to place the neck brace back on the body. The case drew widespread publicity in the newspapers which is why the blackmailer recognized The Little Sister on the trainand with Cumberland's influence on the jury, Mayfield was found guilty of murder. But the judge in the case, who saw more than a reasonable doubt, in keeping The Long Goodbye North Carolina law granted a standard defense motion for a directed acquittal after the verdict of the tainted jury was returned. Cumberland vowed to hound Mayfield wherever she went, and so she fled to Esmeralda; Cumberland was presumably behind the hiring of Marlowe in the first place. Cumberland arrives in Esmeralda to confront Mayfield, but Marlowe, with the help of the local police captain, scares him off. In the British edition of the novel and the screenplay version by Chandler [see below], Cumberland's name is Kinsolving. Mayfield marries a local criminal turned respectable citizen, who has taken a romantic interest in her. Marlowe lets her go ahead but has a frank talk with the ex-criminal, The Long Goodbye has not entirely mended his ways, as he was behind the killing of the blackmailer. At the book's conclusion, Marlowe is rewarded by providence when his old flame, Linda Loring, gets back in touch. Joseph Sistrom was assigned to produce the film and it was intended Chandler would write the script. The novel was reworked by Chandler from the screenplay. The script, thought by some to be superior to the novel generally considered to be the weakest of the seven Marlowe novels, perhaps because of its less complex plot and pat resolutionwas published posthumously. The New York Times called it "smooth, competent, enjoyable and undistinguished Of all Chandler's novels, Playback is the only one never to have been adapted into a film. Marlowe was played by Toby Stephens. The opening lines of the second chapter served as inspiration for Jonathan Lethem 's science fiction — detective novel Gun, with Occasional Music : "There was nothing to it. The Super Chief was on time, as it almost always Playback: Volume 2, and the subject was as easy to spot as a kangaroo in a dinner jacket. Playback is the only Marlowe novel completed by Chandler that is set somewhere other than Los Angeles. The setting is the town of Esmeralda, a fictional name for La Jollawhere Chandler lived his last few years. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Novel by Raymond Chandler. Works by Raymond Chandler. Philip Marlowe. Raymond Chandler Speaking. Categories : American novels American detective novels Novels by Raymond Chandler Hardboiled crime novels Houghton Mifflin books British novels Novels adapted into comics Novels adapted into radio programs. Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Articles The Lady in the Lake Project Gutenberg links. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Cover of the first U. Mysterycrime novel. Print hardcover The Lady in the Lake paperback. The Long Goodbye. The Lady in the Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback by Raymond Chandler Look Inside. Creator of the famous Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler elevated the American hard-boiled detective The Long Goodbye to an art form. The Lady The Long Goodbye the Lake moves Marlowe out of his usual habitat of city streets and into the mountains outside of Los Angeles in his strange search for a missing woman. Playback features a well-endowed redhead who leads Marlowe to the California coast to solve a tale of big money and, of course, murder. Raymond Thornton Chandler was the master practitioner of American hard-boiled crime fiction. Although he was born in Chicago, Chandler spent most of his boyhood and youth in England where he attended Dulwich College and later worked as The Lady in the Lake More about Raymond Chandler. His books bear rereading every few years. The novels are a perfect snapshot of an American past, and yet the ruined romanticism of the voice is as fresh as if they were written yesterday. When you buy a book, we donate a book. Sign in. Category: Noir Mysteries Fiction Classics. Oct 15, ISBN Add to Cart. Also available from:. Hardcover —. See All. Also by Raymond Chandler. See all books by The Long Goodbye Chandler. About Raymond Chandler Raymond Thornton Chandler was the master practitioner of American hard-boiled crime fiction. Product Details. Inspired by Your Browsing History. The Humbling. Mickey Spillane. Walter Mosley. The Pint Man. Steve Rushin. The Dain Curse. Dashiell Hammett. Murder Is My Business. Brett Halliday. Black Wings Has My Angel. Elliott Chaze. The Man with the Golden Arm. Nelson Algren. Turn of the Century. Kurt Andersen. The Mansion. William The Lady in the Lake. Lionel Asbo. The The Lady in the Lake Clock. Kenneth Fearing. Joseph Heller. Brotherly Love. Exit Ghost. Jill Emerson and Lawrence The Lady in the Lake. Chinatown Beat. The Spenser Novels Robert B. The Executioner Weeps. The Simple Art of Murder. Raymond Chandler. Murder in the Wind. John D. Ride a Cockhorse. Raymond Kennedy. A Bloody Business. Dylan Struzan. Good Faith. The Real Cool Killers. Chester Himes. Ghost of a Flea. James Sallis. The Lady in the Lake Sporting Club. Thomas McGuane. The Professor of Desire. Related Articles. Looking for More Great Reads? Download Hi Res. LitFlash The eBooks you want at the lowest prices. Read it Forward Read it first. Pass it on! Stay in Touch Sign up. We are experiencing technical difficulties. Please try again later. Become a Member Start earning points for buying books! The Little Sister - Wikipedia The story is set in Los Angeles in the late s. The novel centres on the younger sister of a Hollywood starlet and has several scenes involving the film industry. Playback: Volume 2 was partly inspired by Chandler's experience working as a screenwriter in Hollywood and his low opinion of the industry and most of the people in it. The book was first published in the UK in June and was released in the United States three months later. The superintendent The Lady in the Lake has passed out in a drunken stupor and when awoken tries to call a Dr. Lagardie before passing out again. Marlowe then finds a man who claims to be a retired optometrist living in Orrin's old room. As Marlowe leaves the building, he finds the superintendent is dead, having been stabbed in the neck with an ice pick. Marlowe phones the Bay City police to report the murder, but doesn't leave his name. As he enters the man's room at the Van Nuys Hotel, a blonde emerges from the bathroom with a towel covering her face. She strikes Marlowe with one of her high heels, knocking him out. When he comes to, he finds the "retired optometrist" dead, The Little Sister with an ice pick in his neck, and the room in disarray from a search. When he notifies the Los Angeles police of the murder, they recognise the victim as a minor player in organised crime. Based on a tip from the hotel detective, Marlowe comes to realise that the woman in the hotel room was Mavis Weld, a rising movie star. He goes to her apartment, where he meets Dolores Gonzales, another minor star. He trades innuendos with Dolores and The Little Sister to help Weld, but she throws him out. After using the claim check to retrieve a set of photos of Weld and a reputed gangster Playback: Volume 2 Steelgrave, Marlowe visits her agent and makes him understand that, far from trying to blackmail the star, he may be able to help her.