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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 featuring the private detective . Chandler died 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 . 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 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. . 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. . 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. The Lady in the Lake his investigations, Marlowe learns that the photos of Weld were taken by Orrin, Orfamay's missing The Lady in the Lake. He also finds out that Orrin is now working with a shady doctor named Lagardie, who practices in Bay City. Marlowe confronts Lagardie, but as they talk Marlowe is knocked unconscious by a drugged cigarette. When he comes to, he finds Orrin trying to The Long Goodbye into the room. Orrin has been shot and, with his last ounce of strength, tries to stab Marlowe with an ice pick. This confirms Marlowe's suspicion that Orrin committed the other murders. She tells him that she had been following him, had found her brother and called the police after Marlowe left. Marlowe is now summoned to the station, where the police are rough with him, but he stands firm and, after an interview with the Playback: Volume 2 attorneyis released to "straighten things out" himself. Dolores Gonzales calls Marlowe to say he must come to Steelgrave's home in the Hollywood Hills immediately, hinting The Long Goodbye Mavis Weld's life is in danger. When Playback: Volume 2 arrives, he finds Mavis is indeed there, but Steelgrave has been killed with a gun of the same type that Mavis used to threaten Marlowe in the hotel room, and of the same calibre as the gun used to shoot Orrin. Weld confesses to Marlowe that she killed Steelgrave and is ready to turn herself in. Marlowe convinces her to leave the gangster's home and then calls the police to report finding yet another body. Although initially angry, the police are The Lady in the Lake grateful to have the case resolved with an end to a known gangster on whom they had no evidence and so could not hold. When Mavis Weld's agent hires a society lawyer to defend her The Long Goodbye, the police accept that they don't have a convincing case against anybody. Back in his office, Marlowe is visited by Orfamay one The Lady in the Lake time. He also accuses Orfamay of killing Steelgrave, in revenge for Steelgrave's having killed Orrin at Lagardie's office. Realising there is still one loose thread, Marlowe visits Dolores Gonzales at her apartment and she confesses to engineering the crimes. It was she who killed Steelgrave, her former lover, who had left her for Mavis, and then she had told Mavis that her sister Orfamay did it. At first Marlowe finds it hard to believe that someone who seems so casual about sex could be so passionate. Then he realises that he can't touch Dolores without destroying Mavis and her career and leaves, only to see Lagardie heading The Long Goodbye to see her. Marlowe notifies the police, who are searching for Lagardie, but they arrive to find he has stabbed Dolores. Chandleralong with Dashiell Hammettdefined the hardboiled school of , popularised in pulp magazines such as Black Mask. The hardboiled school abandoned the genteel characters and elaborate intrigues Playback: Volume 2 in the murder mysteries of authors such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Instead, they moved "murder out of the Venetian vase and into the alley" and "gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not with hand-wrought duelling pistols, curare, and tropical fish. One thing that distinguished Chandler's hero Philip Marlowe even from his other hardboiled peers is that Marlowe often doesn't apprehend the criminal or explain every plot point at the end of the novel. Marlowe is a witness to events and, at most, is able to manipulate them in subtle ways to balance the scales of justice a bit. Marlowe is always arriving too late to prevent a murder or catch the criminal. Even at the very end, Playback: Volume 2 he has finally solved the complex riddle of the case, his last act is simply to notify the police too late and let events take their course. The Little Sister was the first novel Chandler wrote after working as a screenwriter for Paramount in Hollywood, and it reflects some of his experiences with and disdain for the film industry. Although Chandler's name and fiction are almost synonymous with Los Angeles, he spent most of The Lady in the Lake adolescence in England, and he retained a preference for manners and formality that he learned in the English public school system. This put him at odds The Lady in the Lake the informal atmosphere in Hollywood. For example, Chandler took an instant dislike to Billy Wilderhis writing partner on . According to Wilder's recollection, "[Chandler] was a The Little Sister peculiar, a sort of rather acid man, like so Playback: Volume 2 former alcoholics are Chandler was not the kind of person to directly confront someone. The partnership with Wilder seemed to be going well on the surface. Then one day Chandler did not show up for work, but instead delivered a typed list of complaints to Paramount officials, demanding that they be resolved before he would return to working on the script. John Housemanone of Chandler's few Hollywood friends, remembers one item in particular:. Chandler used this experience in the novel. When Marlowe visits the office of Mavis Weld's agent Chapter 18he describes the agent in a manner reminiscent of his complaint against Wilder:. He walked away from me to a tall cylindrical jar in the corner. From this he took one of a number of short thin malacca canes. He began to walk up and down the carpet, swinging the cane deftly past his shoe. I sat down again and killed my cigarette and took a deep breath. And one of the most memorable passages in the book is a long soliloquy by Marlowe where he waxes philosophical about the emptiness and shallowness of Los Angeles and its residents. That section is punctuated by Marlowe saying to himself: "You're not human tonight, Marlowe. At the same time, one of the villains of the novel, the one "who never looked less like Lady Macbeth ," is not the film star of the Quest Playback: Volume 2, but the little sister, a mousy small town girl who ultimately cares more for a few dollars than for her siblings. The heroine, who is willing to sacrifice herself and whom Marlowe ultimately rescues, is the jaded Hollywood starlet, Mavis Weld. This story was updated for the film Marlowestarring James Garner as detective Philip Marlowe. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Novel by Raymond Chandler. For other uses, see Little Sister The Lady in the Lake. Raymond Chandler Collected Stories. New York: Alfred A. The Simple Art of Murder. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. In The Long Goodbye, Miriam ed. The World of Raymond Chandler. Works by Raymond Chandler. Philip Marlowe. Raymond Chandler Speaking. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. First The Long Goodbye UK. The Lady in the Lake. The Long Goodbye.