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Scott Brick
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Raymond Chandler
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Crime fiction master Raymond Chandler's final novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times).
In noir master Raymond Chandler's Playback, Philip Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never heard of to tail a gorgeous redhead but then decides he'd rather help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it.
"Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence." (Ross Macdonald)
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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. He’s willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe finds himself drawn into a sordid crowd of adulterers and alcoholics in LA’s Idle Valley, where the rich are suffering one big suntanned hangover. Marlowe is sure Lennox didn’t kill his wife, but how many more stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth?
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A Great Way To Spend One & A Half Hours
- By Nils J. Rasmussen on 11-24-12
By: Raymond Chandler
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Our Man in Havana
- By: Graham Greene
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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MI6's man in Havana is Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true....
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Story was intriguing
- By Anonymous User on 08-14-24
By: Graham Greene
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The Man from St. Petersburg
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
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His name was Feliks. He came to London to commit a murder that would change history. A master manipulator, he had many weapons at his command, but against him were ranged the whole of the English police, a brilliant and powerful lord, and the young Winston Churchill himself. These odds would have stopped any man in the world - except the man from St. Petersburg.
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Riveting historical fiction
- By Thomas P. O'Connor on 04-14-21
By: Ken Follett
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The Thin Man
- By: Dashiell Hammett
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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The Thin Man introduces Nick and Nora Charles, New York's coolest crime-solving couple. Nick retired from detecting after his wife inherited a tidy sum, but six years later a pretty blonde spies him at a speakeasy and asks for his help finding her father, an eccentric inventor who was once Nick's client. Nick can no more resist the case than a morning cocktail or a good fight, and soon he and Nora are caught in a complicated web of confused identities.
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RECORDING IS DEFECTIVE! MISSING SEVEN CHAPTERS!
- By David on 01-08-13
By: Dashiell Hammett
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- D. Pierce
- 06-22-22
So Marlowe
Excellent as always, audio production fits the story well. Liked music between chapters, so Marlowe.
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- seouljake
- 11-24-21
Not Chandler's finest, but Brick is always great!
Not Chandler's finest, but Brick is always great!
Not Chandler's finest, but Brick is always great!
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- M.L. Curry
- 09-01-23
Dramatic and very good
I agree the music trumpets the drama, but who deserves extras more than Marlow. Chandler's literary flourish may not be as top notch in this episode as in others, yet the depth of all characters here is striking~ Marlow accepts his dangerous psyche more than ever.
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- Felicedileggere
- 03-26-22
Overproduced
The music was too loud and distracting. I love Scott Brick - this was not one of his best .,,,
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- H. Metz
- 08-26-23
Raymond Chandler!…
…Philip Marlowe! Murder! Dames!
Read all of these as a late teenager… a few elements haven’t aged quite well, but they’re less upsetting to me than they may be for others. Otherwise: classic.
The moral rectitude, but not the unnecessary body count or over-complexity of early Hammett nor the high society cocktail party crime game of late Hammett. Just right.
Well read, too (could maybe have been more gravelly voiced?). Could have done without the music interludes and stuff… it dates these and makes listening to them feel like watching a black-and-white movie…. The writing style is so modern and immediate.
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- Paul Winchel
- 11-13-21
Spontaneous traffic noises while driving
The music interludes were obnoxious and inappropriate. I don't know why you would use those.
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- Wilfred
- 06-07-24
Annoying musical interludes
Sigh. What is this? Did Raymond really write this book? It's like someone TRYING to write like him, but they are an amateur. ChatGPT could spin a better more "Chandler" story than this. Don't buy this book.
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