Playback

Jaded and cynical Los Angeles detective Philip Marlowe meets up with classy, well-endowed redhead Betty Mayfield in this last novel (1958) by the master of mystery, Raymond Chandler. Marlowe is assigned to tail Betty- a cinch, he thinks, until lounge lizard Larry Mitchell turns up dead outside Betty's Hotel room a few hours after pawing her in a California club. Filled with Chandler's famed snappy repartee and starkly frightening scenes, Playback simmers with suspense as Marlowe tries to solve a tale of big money and, of course, murder.