Playback is Raymond Chandler\"s gripping last full-length novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe. Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is mixing business with pleasure - he\"s getting paid to follow a lovely mysterious redhead called Eleanor King. And wherever Miss King goes, trouble is sure to follow....

Set against a Southern Californian backdrop, the stories are rich with suspense, violence and tragedy, and each comes laced with booze, bullets and a detective with an eye for a damsel in distress and an even keener eye for justice . . ....

A classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime, The Long Good-Bye is the sixth novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator....

\"Everything was quiet and sunny and calm. No cause for excitement whatever. It\"s only Marlowe, finding another body. He does it rather well by now. Murder-a-day Marlowe, they call him...\" Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired to find a missing woman....

\"He lay crumpled on his back. Very lonely, very dead. The safe door was wide open. A metal drawer was pulled out. It was empty now. There may have been money in it once....