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When Raymond Chandler died in 1959, he left behind the first 4 chapters of a new Philip Marlowe thriller. Decades later, Robert B. Parker, the creator of the Spenser novels, completed Poodle Springs; in this tale Marlowe is a live and well, living in California. He is married to a wealthy heiress, but the lap of luxury hasn't changed his cynicism or his talent for attracting trouble. Soon he is on the trail of greed, lust, and murder as dark and...
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"The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. And Philip Marlowe - now in his seventy-second year - is living out his retirement in the terrace bar of the La Fonda hotel. Sipping margaritas, playing cards, his silver-tipped cane at the ready. When in saunter two men dressed like undertakers, with a case that has his name written all over it. For Marlowe, this is his last roll of the dice, his swan song. His mission is to investigate the death of...
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"Raymond Chandler's incomparable private eye is back, pulled by a seductive young heiress into the most difficult and dangerous case of his career"It was one of those summer Tuesday afternoons when you begin to wonder if the earth has stopped revolving. The telephone on my desk had the look of something that knows it's being watched. Traffic trickled by in the street below, and there were a few pedestrians, too, men in hats going nowhere."So begins...
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