Playback
by CHANDLER, Raymond
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never herd of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but decides he prefers to help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it."Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence:" -- Ross MacdonaldFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Quair Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2151
- Title
- Playback
- Author
- CHANDLER, Raymond
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1958
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts; Crime and Detective Fiction;
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