![]() Laid out in Chandler-esque form, with a wholly unexpected ending. What happens in between, taking place in a little more than a week, is Up to my knees in corpses, and I damn near became a corpse myself." ![]() Look for a guy who was supposed to be dead. Often." As Marlow later summarized things, he is "hired to Aīlonde with black eyes-that's not a combination you get very Mountain lake, the lids exquisitely tapered at their outer corners. ![]() "Her hair was blond and her eyes were black, black and deep as a The eponymous woman makes her first appearance moments later. Good folks of our fair city ambled along the sidewalk, men in hats, Black did the rest, and he did it brilliantly. Chandler himself wrote the title it was one of several in a list of possible new books about Marlowe. Past in the street below the dusty window of my office, and a few of the The Black-Eyed Blonde is Black’s first effort at rejuvenating the series in an arrangement with Chandler’s estate. The air of something that knows it's being watched. Wonder if the earth has stopped revolving. Words: "It was one of those Tuesday afternoons in summer when you The masterful re-imagining is evident from the first ![]() ![]() Philip Marlowe with a reputation as a "thinking man'sĭetective.". The many fans of Raymond Chandler and his creation, LA private detective Retrieved from ĩ781250062123, $16.00, 304 pp, John Banville, the Irish author here writing under his pen name ofīenjamin Black, has written a book certain to give exquisite pleasure to MLA style: "The Black-Eyed Blonde." The Free Library. ![]()
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