The Black-Eyed Blonde (Philip Marlowe)

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Then a new client is shown in: blond, beautiful, and expensively dressed, she wants Marlowe to find her former lover. It's part of the story of my life, sitting in cars late at night with stale cigarette smoke in my nostrils and the night birds crying. She must have sensed my unease about the veil, and put up a hand now and lifted it away from her face.

The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Novel (Philip Marlowe series Book 10) The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Novel (Philip Marlowe series Book 10)

Women are not the only thing I don’t understand—I don’t understand myself, either, not one little bit. Audiences polled by PostTrak gave the film a 51% positive score, with 27% saying they would "definitely recommend" it. A. There's a sultry femme fatale, a sinister philanthropist, and plenty of punches thrown, pistols whipped, and suits ruined. There are times when you find yourself following your instincts like a well-trained dog trotting behind the heels of its master.The bullet coming from any wall other than directly behind Marian would have supported Diana's claim of a wild shot.

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Banville has largely perfected Chandler's much-mimicked, seldom-bettered knack for similes and one-liners. The author totally captures the atmosphere of a Chandler novel, the mood of the city, the action of brutal fights, dead bodies, and an exquisite investigation. And the constant habit of Marlowe telling me things he did or didn't like, or what he did or didn't do. It's remarkable how fresh this book feels while still hewing close to the material on which it's based…. The usual hoodlums and double-crossers make their appearances and even Detective Bernie Ohls who cannot understand how Marlowe keeps turning up corpses wherever he turns and how he is not fully involved in whatever is going on.Almost immediately, Marlowe discovers the guy had previously been killed in a hit-and-run but that Ms. After its theatrical release, a review from Chicago Sun-Times 's Richard Roeper said, "Thanks to the high-end production values, the juicy script and the vigorous performances from that first-rate cast, it's great to see another iteration of Marlowe on the case".

Case of the Black-Eyed Blonde - Goodreads The Case of the Black-Eyed Blonde - Goodreads

After Chandler snuffed it he lay low before palling up with Robert B Parker, a pulp hand who Boswelled a pair of Marlovian adventures in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In Los Angeles, Private Detective Philip Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and business is a little slow. For tantalisingly unclear reasons, Mrs C has hired Marlowe to find a former lover, Nico Peterson, who has disappeared.As a self-proclaimed Raymond Chandler expert, I read this book with an exceptionally critical eye, and what resulted was a two star book rating. A beautiful client, Clare Cavendish, rich and mysterious, a missing link, to be found dead or alive, the flatfoot cop to be manipulated and avoided. When Marlowe shakes hands with someone, “It was like being given a sleek, cool-skinned animal to hold for a moment or two. She was taller than she had seemed when I saw her from the window, tall and slender with broad shoulders and trim hips. That baseline of doubt, the whiff of regret and then betrayal, form the essential atmosphere of noir fiction.