From a book perspective, I suppose I never really read murder mysteries from a lawyer's perspective and Mason often felt smarter than me. I found myself rereading passages because Mason found a clue in someone's suspicious statement, but I never saw it myself. I felt more like Della, just along for the ride.

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Yossman, K.J. (24 September 2022). "Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger to Attend World Premiere of San Sebastian Closer Marlowe". Variety. Archived from the original on 21 September 2022 . Retrieved 24 September 2022. Asking Diana if she had "a tailored suit", and then saying that the blue one selected by the matron was unacceptable, was merely a ruse used by Mr. Mason to gain access to her apartment and have the opportunity to search for her roommate's diary. jfh 29Aug2016.The Irish understudy takes on Chandler's habits convincingly. The Marlowe books have a paradoxical tone of energetic weariness, which this imitation echoes in numerous lines. Visiting a witness, the detective reports that he "lowered himself into one of the armchairs. It was so deep my knees nearly gave me an uppercut." Painted roses on a bedside lamp throw shadows that look like "bloodstains someone had started to wash away and then given up on". Qualche tempo fa ho proposto al gruppo di lettura cui partecipo "Il lungo addio", di Raymond Chandler. Il libro è piaciuto molto, nonostante il suo autore non fosse molto noto a parecchi di quei lettori forti, che di Chandler avevano giusto sentito parlare.

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I admire director Robert Altman and his “take” on Philip Marlowe in the movie, The Long Goodbye. However, that isn’t the Philip Marlowe that Raymond Chandler wrote about. It can’t be the same Marlowe that was walking those “mean streets” more than half a century ago. This book has Marlowe looking for Nico Peterson, at the request of Clare Cavendish . Although she is married to another man, she tells Marlowe that Nico was her lover. She says that he has disappeared. Reviewing from the San Sebastián International Film Festival, Screen Daily wrote, "With some crunchingly incongruous gags about famous screen MacGuffins, the knowing screenplay by Jordan and William Monahan...doesn't feel devious enough in its plotting or sufficiently fresh in reimagining either its hero or his LA world". [20] Guy Lodge from Variety wrote in his review, "Jordan's film is both resolutely conservative in its period framing and irksomely postmodern in its audience pandering". [21]The Waterford writer, Bill Long, made Chandler's acquaintance in London in 1958 when they lived two doors apart in Chelsea.

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If not familiar with "The Long Goodbye" it night be helpful to reestablish that familiarity to better enjoy this next excursion into the world of Philip Marlowe. Marlowe had its world premiere on 24 September 2022, as the closing film of the 70th San Sebastián International Film Festival. [14] It was originally set for a 2 December 2022, release in the United States but was delayed to 15 February 2023. [15] [16] Reception [ edit ] Box office [ edit ] The plot, though new, follows the master's hand. On a listless LA day, a beautiful young woman turns up in the PI's office. She is Mrs Clare Cavendish, heiress to a perfume fortune built by an Irish immigrant family, the Langrishes. For tantalisingly unclear reasons, Mrs C has hired Marlowe to find a former lover, Nico Peterson, who has disappeared. The private eye soon learns that Peterson has been killed and cremated, although this information becomes increasingly questionable as the investigator follows the trail deeper into the scent company. At the Cahuilla, as it happens. A Sunday afternoon. My husband was engaged in a particularly strenuous chukker. That's a—" This is my first Perry Mason book – enjoyable but not especially engaging and I doubt he’ll become a firm favourite. Trouble is, it’s very lawyerish: a book about a lawyer as sleuth that very much reads as though written by a lawyer. Which funnily enough…..

I got up from the desk and took my pipe to the window and stood looking out at nothing in particular. In an office across the street, a secretary in a tartan blouse and wearing earphones from a Dictaphone machine was bent over her typewriter, tapping away. I had passed her in the street a few times. Nice little face, shy smile; the kind of girl who lives with her mother and cooks meat loaf for Sunday lunch. This is a lonely town.

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Lo scopo, dice Banville, non è copiare Chandler ma onorarne lo spirito: "I have sought not to parrot Chandler, but to honour the spirit, vigorous, valiant and melancholy, of this master of English prose". Colm Meaney crosses another thing off the wish list". Raidió Teilifís Éireann. 3 February 2022. Archived from the original on 16 February 2022 . Retrieved 16 February 2022. Avendo ormai esaurito le letture originali (incluso Poodle Springs, che consiste in 10 pagine di Chandler e una trecentina, trascurabili di Robert Parker), ho scoperto che il famoso scrittore irlandese John Banville aveva pubblicato sotto pseudonimo questa "Philip Marlowe novel", ben recensita sulla stampa americana.Marlowe (2023) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC . Retrieved 10 March 2023. Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. Somewhere Raymond Chandler is smiling, because this is a beautifully rendered hardboiled novel that echoes Chandler's melancholy at perfect pitch. The story is great, but what amazed me is how John Banville caught the cumulative effect Chandler's prose had on readers. It's hard to quantify, but it's also what separated the Marlowe novels from the general run of noir (which included some damn fine novelists, like David Goodis and Jim Thompson). The sadness runs deep. I loved this book. It was like having an old friend, one you assumed was dead, walk into the room. Kind of like Terry Lennox, hiding behind those drapes.” — Stephen King She leaned forward and dropped a few flakes of cigarette ash beside the bowl of my pipe. A faint waft of her perfume came across the desk. It smelled like Chanel No. 5, but then, to me all perfumes smell like Chanel No. 5, or did up to then.