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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
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Detective Marlow sets out to find the missing wife of a publishing magnate. Several smack-arounds, one dead gigolo, a few angry cops, a booze-soaked frame-up and one dame in the lake later, Marlowe finds the killer and finds that he's also looking at the business end of a gun.
Author
Series
Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Lawrence Osborne brings one of literature's most enduring detectives back to life - as Private Investigator Philip Marlowe returns for one last adventure. 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...
Author
Series
Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 2
Language
English
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Moose Malloy, a six-foot-five giant just out of prison, gets detective Philip Marlowe involved in his seemingly hopeless search for Velma, his missing girlfriend
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Series
Everyman's library volume 257
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Author
Series
Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 4
Language
English
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Private detective Philip Marlowe's search for two lost wives leads him into a world of evil, corruption, and murder.
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In this colorful reinvention of a classic, Philip Marlowe finds himself tangled in two missing persons cases; The seductive and relentless figure of Raymond Chandler's detective, Philip Marlowe, is vividly re-imagined in present-day Los Angeles. Here is a city of scheming Malibu actresses, ruthless gang members, virulent inequality, and washed-out police. Acclaimed and award-winning novelist Joe Ide imagines a Marlowe very much of our time: he's...
10) Playback
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1988, c1986
Language
English
Description
Philip Marlowe, a private detective, receives a mysterious assignment to meet the Super Chief and follow one of its passengers, but the case soon leads to murder
12) The big sleep
Publisher
Turner Entertainment and Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000-].
Language
English
Description
Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired to protect General Sternwood's young daughter from her indiscretions, and finds, several murders later, that he has fallen in love with her elder sister.
L.A. private detective Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled by murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues, the spoiled rich - just to name a few. Marlowe is hired to protect a young woman and in the process, he falls in love with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
"Stories and Early Novels includes every story that Chandler did not later incorporate into a novel - thirteen in all. Drawn from the pages of Black Mask and Dime Detective, these stories show how Chandler adapted the violent conventions of the pulp magazines - with their brisk exposition and rapid-fire dialogue - to his own emerging vision of 20th-century America." "Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels contains a newly researched chronology...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Philip Marlowe is on the hunt for a missing heiress—and up against a rival PI—in this smart and atmospheric authorized mystery from acclaimed crime writer and "one-of-a-kind storyteller" Denise Mina (James Patterson), the first woman to recreate Raymond Chandler’s infamous detective. Has Philip Marlowe finally met his match? It’s early fall when a heatwave descends on Los Angeles. Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the Montgomery...
16) Marlowe
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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A hard luck detective searches for the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress.
"A gripping noir crime thriller set in late 1930s Bay City centers around a brooding, down-on-his-luck detective; Philip Marlowe, played by Liam Neeson, who is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress, daughter of a well-known movie star. The disappearance is the first twist in a series of bewildering events, and soon Marlowe is embroiled in a deadly investigation and...
Series
Shout Select volume 42
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Farewell, my lovely: "Philip Marlowe is involved in a case of deception, double-cross and murder. When Moose Malloy, a giant ex-con fresh from prison, asks to find his missing sweetheart, Marlowe winds up unconscious on the floor with a dead man next to him. The case could very well cost Marlowe his life." -- Container.
Big sleep: "Philip Marlowe is caught in a deadly case of blackmail. General Sternwood, an aged and wealthy American, is being blackmailed...
19) Marlowe: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe returns in award-winning author John Banville’s Marlowe―originally published as The Black-Eyed Blonde under the pen name Benjamin Black―the basis for the major motion picture starring Liam Neeson as the iconic detective. "Somewhere Raymond Chandler is smiling . . . I loved this book. It was like having an old friend, one you assumed was dead, walk into the room." ―Stephen King "It was one of those Tuesday...
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