Description
| Product ID: | 9781447236702 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Black Eyed Blonde |
| Subtitle: | A Philip Marlowe Novel |
| Authors: | Author: Benjamin Black |
| Page Count: | 304 |
| Subjects: | Crime and mystery fiction, Crime & mystery |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A noir crime thriller featuring one of the most iconic detectives in crime fiction, now a major film starring Liam Neeson. <p><b>In this gripping and deeply evocative crime novel, Benjamin Black returns us to the dark, mesmerising world of Raymond Chandler's<i> The Long Goodbye</i> and his detective Philip Marlowe; one of the most iconic and enduringly popular detectives in crime fiction.<br><br>Now a major film, <i>Marlowe</i>, starring Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger.</b><br><br>It is the early 1950s. In Los Angeles, Private Detective Philip Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and business is a little slow. Then a new client arrives: young, beautiful, and expensively dressed, Clare Cavendish wants Marlowe to find her former lover. <br><br>Soon Marlowe will find himself not only under the spell of the Black-Eyed Blonde; but tangling with one of Bay City’s richest families – and developing a singular appreciation for how far they will go to protect their fortune . . .<br><br><b>'Somewhere Raymond Chandler is smiling, because this is a beautifully rendered hardboiled novel that echoes Chandler's melancholy at perfect pitch' – Stephen King</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-03-02 |
