The Black-Eyed Blonde (Philip Marlowe)

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William Monahan on Writing The Tender Bar, How He Adapts Material, and Neil Jordan's Philip Marlowe Movie Starring Liam Neeson". Bestseller Black’s understated but highly effective fifth crime novel featuring 1950s Dublin pathologist Quirke (after 2011’s A Death in Summer) offers a provocative whydunit. Hendricks reveals he is after Peterson, his former drug courier, who stole a large amount of cocaine and the Corbata helped fake Peterson's death. It's remarkable how fresh this book feels while still hewing close to the material on which it's based.

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A., toots: The hot summer, rain on the asphalt, the woman with the lipstick, cigarette ash and alienation, V8 coupes, tough guys, snub-nosed pistols, the ice melting in the bourbon .And why, in the first place, had she got herself involved with Nico Peterson, who, if her description of him was accurate, would turn out to be nothing but a cheap grifter in a sharp suit? I started it with the frame of mind that this was the original Chandler, with Banville skulking in an anonymous background. If anything, oddly, the book is probably better than an actual Chandler: more coherent, and more consistent, more careful. Long and convoluted questions, and hard to concentrate on while remembering Clare Cavendish's candid eyes and the amused, knowing light that shone in them.

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A little bit more distracted, perhaps, a little nervous, even—though maybe it only seems that way in hindsight. And who seemed to be channeling Chandler even before he was asked to, while still maintaining a very identifiable, charismatic voice of his own?While leaving, Marlowe notices the woman from the grave, Peterson's sister Lynn, and clandestinely agrees to meet with her at the Cabana club later that evening; their discussion is observed by Hanson. He is the youngest of three siblings; his older brother Vincent is also a novelist and has written under the name Vincent Lawrence as well as his own. It is wonderful, an affectionate tribute and a labour of love that is sure to please Chandler devotees and endear new audiences. I was convinced that behind everything that had happened there was another version of things that I couldn’t read. If we look at the tropes of pulp fiction, in particular hard-boiled detective novels than we must suspect Clare to be the femme fatale and the case would be full of unexpected twists and turns.

The Black Eyed Blonde: A Philip Marlowe Novel (Philip Marlowe

Parker was memorably dismissed by Martin Amis for having turned Marlowe, that hard-boiled walker of lonely streets, into an "affable goon". A., toots: The hot summer, rain on the asphalt, the woman with the lipstick, cigarette ash and alienation, V8 coupes, tough guys, snub-nosed pistols, the ice melting in the bourbon… The results are Chandleresque, sure, but you can see Banville's sense of fun.Most people know I am a huge fan of Marlowe, the hard-boiled detective created by Raymond Chandler, but something in me had to know if The Black-Eyed Blonde was any good.

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The premise is simple; a blonde bombshell, Clare Cavendish, seeks out Marlowe to find her missing lover Nico Peterson. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Maybe it was time I forgot about Nico Peterson, and his sister, and the Cahuilla Club, and Clare Cavendish. In 1939 Los Angeles, private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by glamorous heiress Clare Cavendish to find her missing lover, Nico Peterson, a prop master at Pacific Film Studios.

The bullet coming from any wall other than directly behind Marian would have supported Diana's claim of a wild shot. The reputation of the original novels rests largely on two factors: the tone of the prose and the character of Marlowe.