Poodle Springs
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.38 (643 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1597770272 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 181 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly Detective Philip Marlowe's seventh caper takes place in Poodle Springs (read: Palm Springs) and in L.A., where a gambler has been framed for murder. "Sustaining tensions, writing in tune with the period and delivering a knockout finale, Parker does nobly by the great Chandler," determined PW
Parker is the internationally best-selling author of the Spenser mysteries. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Marlowe may have married rich, but old habits die hard: he's hired to recover a gambling debt and soon finds himself in a case involving bigamy, pornography, and murder.The first four chapters of this final Marlowe mystery were written by noir master Raymond Chandler at the end of his life. Marlowe is back and he's married to a rich, beautiful society lady who wants him to settle down in the posh desert community of Poodle Springs. Robert B. Parker was chosen by Chandler's estate to complete his last work, and the result is a true classic for Chandler aficionados and mystery fans alike.
Don't include this one in the corpus This book is not Marlowe. Chandler abandoned this project after four chapters because it violated his vision of Marlowe as forever drunk and alone (his editor and publisher wanted it to have a happy ending). Parker doesn't understand the character at all. He turned Marlowe into Terry Lennox. The best are from "The Big Sleep". Raymond Chandler? Well, Sort Of. POODLE SPRINGS (1989), Raymond Chandler and Robert D. Parker When he died in 1959, Raymond Chandler, the author of the memorable Philip Marlowe detective novels, The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely and The Long Goodbye, left behind the first four chapters of a new hard-edged mystery. Thirty years later, Robert B. Parker, auth. I put off buying it because of the co-author thing, but after the first five pages I was glad I bought it -- it's excellent! BetaPlus145 Because only the first four chapters were written by Chandler, I expected it to not come up to his level. Happily, I was wrong! It started a bit slow and didn't have the usual zinger beginning, but it quickly picked up pace. All in all, it was quite brilliant and is an adequate tribute to the master -- Raymond Chandler!