The Black-Eyed Blonde (Philip Marlowe)

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These sparkly barrettes add pizzazz!

Chandler’s style is something I admire the one line descriptions are brilliant, the plots are tangled and interesting Philip Marlowe is always in the thick of the action, there is usually a fascinating woman involved, often a femme fatale. I don’t know if my first encounter with Marlowe was in a book, watching Humphrey Bogart play him in the Big Sleep on the silver screen or Chandler’s books dramatised on Radio 4, with Ed Bishop as Marlowe.

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I hope we see some more Philip Marlowe novels from Benjamin Black. While the book cover is in good condition, the book itself has damage to the lower right hand corner in the front and pgs 128+129 have a gouge and tear. We can’t visit the time when Marlowe walked the mean Streets or even those Streets themselves as they were then but they seem real in our imagination as we turn the pages, both in Chandler’s originals and in Black’s, Black Eyed Blond. The blond, Mrs Clare Cavendish, daughter of a fabulously rich perfume maker, hires him to find a missing man, a man who is not her husband.

Will he find this man, and what is this man’s connection to the woman looking for him? As long as I can remember I have been a fan of Raymond Chandler and his hero Philip Marlowe.