the black eyed blonde a philip marlowe novel

When I heard that Marlowe was once again being resurrected, I was less than thrilled by the idea and will freely admit that I stepped into Benjamin Black’s The Black-Eyed Blonde fully expecting to hate it from page one. I loved every word, but have never gone back to the books since: Poodle Springs, of which Chandler wrote the first few chapters and which was finished by another crime fiction stalwart, Robert B.

of the mid-twentieth century in the company of one of the most iconic and entertaining characters in crime fiction. Immediately entranced, I immersed myself in the L.A. Once upon a long time ago, at the tender age of about fifteen, I discovered the novels of Raymond Chandler. And he hasn’t even been paid for the job. Throw in a pair of Mexican heavies, one of L.A.’s top gangsters and a country club that seems to be a front for something less than legal, and Marlowe is up to his hat-brim in trouble. For another, something isn’t quite right about Clare Cavendish’s story.

For one thing, Nico Peterson is dead and buried. But as he investigates, things don’t quite add up. So Marlowe takes the case, mainly because he can’t bear the thought of Clare Cavendish walking out of his office and never seeing her again. It’s a scenario Marlowe has investigated often and it usually means the boyfriend has wanted to end the affair and decided disappearing might be an easier option than going through the process of ending it. It seems like a straightforward case: Nico Peterson, the boyfriend of Philip Marlowe’s married client, has disappeared. Twitter Updates Tweets by MattGCraig Tag Cloud alison littlewood angela slatter Atlantic Books australia Berlin borough press cara hunter carrie carrieat40 child abduction competition corvus crime Daniel Polansky dark tower david lagercrantz Doubleday drugs extract family fantasy Florida france ghosts Gollancz guest post Hard Case Crime harpercollins harper voyager harvill secker headline Head of Zeus Hitler hodder hodder & stoughton hodderscape review project holocaust horror influences Interview Ireland James Ellroy james smythe jamie bulloch joe hill jo fletcher books John Connolly jonathan cape justin cronin kevin sampson London Los Angeles MacLehose Press Macmillan magic malcolm mackay mantle matthew blakstad Michael Marshall Michael Marshall Smith murder Neal Stephenson Neil Gaiman new york no exit press noir orbit orenda books Orion orion books oxford Pan MacMillan paris penguin picador pierre lemaitre politics post-apocalypse Quercus raven books Raymond Chandler religion Sanctus sarah pinborough serial killer Simon & Schuster Simon Toyne stephen king Stuart Neville the passage the shining the twelve thriller Time Travel Tim Lebbon Titan Books unsung stories war weidenfeld & nicholson will dean

The black eyed blonde a philip marlowe novel