He quickly learns that Peterson is dead, having been killed after falling down drunk before a car ran over his head outside the exclusive luxury Corbata Club.

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I decided not to share this happy coincidence with her, imagining the jaded smile and the twitch of disdain at the corner of her mouth that would greet it. Banville lets us know from the very start of The Black-Eyed Blonde that we are in the safest of hands here . The dictionary said it was a manuscript with the original text partly erased and a new one written over it.

At the risk of sounding like some sort of literary snob (trust me, I’m not), the writing at the heart of any new Marlowe novel will always be lacking something. I got up from the desk and took my pipe to the window and stood looking out at nothing in particular.

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Dunham described him during the writing process as being like "a murderer who's just come back from a particularly bloody killing". It's tightly plotted, has its share of blunt violence and wise-cracks, as well as descriptions of L. Banville has largely perfected Chandler's much-mimicked, seldom-bettered knack for similes and one-liners…. But the lady in money is quite sure she saw him way after his death and Marlowe has to find out if it is possible.Do not forget to read: Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: A Centennial Celebration it has some excellent stories with Marlowe. Maybe the similes aren’t up to snuff, maybe Marlowe isn’t ruthless enough, mean enough, I can’t put my finger on it but it’s missing something. She must have sensed my unease about the veil, and put up a hand now and lifted it away from her face. This Banville character was a piece of work: hired Irish muscle with heavyweight credentials, including the Man Booker prize for The Sea (2005).

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Soon Marlowe will find himself not only under the spell of the Black-Eyed Blonde; but tangling with one of Bay City’s richest families – and developing a singular appreciation for how far they will go to protect their fortune . a b c d e f " 'Marlowe' Review: Liam Neeson's Outing as the Iconic Private Eye is Less a 'Big Sleep' Than a Major Snooze".

Painted roses on a bedside lamp throw shadows that look like "bloodstains someone had started to wash away and then given up on". In both aspects The Black-Eyed Blonde failed to deliver anything interesting; Clare was attractive and seductive but never really had an air of mystery about her and the case felt too cut and dry. I'll eagerly look forward to reading another of the latter, but when it comes to Philip Marlowe, I'll be sticking to the real thing. Filming for exterior scenes set in Los Angeles took place in Barcelona, Spain, [11] while interior scenes were shot in Dublin, Ireland. She was taller than she had seemed when I saw her from the window, tall and slender with broad shoulders and trim hips.

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Marlowe is perhaps a bit more self-satisfied with his wit than previously, and definitely has an even keener sense of other people’s fashions, but is still the Galahad of the mean streets that Chandler imagined. Marlowe secretly follows Cavendish to a rendezvous with O'Reilly, and runs into Quincannon who shares her anger at her daughter's relationship with the much older and powerful O'Reilly. So, when Banville felt the need to scratch the itch of thrills and spills through his new Benjamin Black persona, and then got the nod for a new Marlowe, I knew hatches would be battened in advance of a perfect storm of murder, mayhem, a double-dealing dame and a wise-cracking gumshoe. The blonde is a little vague about the details of her relationship with the missing Nico and about why she is so anxious to find him. Against a dozen other detective novels on my desk, I'll take a Raymond Chandler any day of the week, even when its written by somebody else--assuming that somebody is Benjamin Black.

As a self-proclaimed Raymond Chandler expert, I read this book with an exceptionally critical eye, and what resulted was a two star book rating. Raymond Chandler's people were from the neighbouring county, Waterford, and the young Raymond, apparently spent many's a happy day of his childhood wandering the streets of Waterford City. She wore elbow-length gloves, pale cream to match her jacket, and fashioned from the hide of some rare creature that had spent its brief life bounding delicately over Alpine crags. I put my pipe in the ashtray and clasped my hands together and propped my chin on a couple of knuckles to show her how attentive I could be.