Playback (novel)

Playback is the final, complete novel by Raymond Chandler to feature his iconic creation Philip Marlowe. Published in 1958 the novel puts Marlowe in the position of turning against a client who has hired him to prove that his daughter-in-law is in fact guilty of a crime for which she has been acquitted.

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Raymond Chandler - Philip Marlowe - 1958

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The opening lines of the second chapter served as inspiration for Jonathan Lethem's science-fiction cum detective novel Gun, with Occasional Music: "There was nothing to it. The Super Chief was on time, as it almost always is, and the subject was as easy to spot as a kangaroo in a dinner jacket."

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Jonathan Lethem - Gun, with Occasional Music

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