The Black-Eyed Blonde (Philip Marlowe)

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I thought for a bit, and let her see me thinking. "Tell me," I said, "when did you realize he was gone? I mean, when did you decide he had"—now it was my turn to smile—"disappeared?" Sasha Magaloff" is now known to be the actor Mitchell Rhein. Submitted by catyron, November 16, 2020. Ya la sinopsis nos muestra hacia quién estará enfocada la investigación. Esta es una de las características del policial negro: durante todo el libro se sabe quién es el culpable, y lo que se trata de resolver es qué pasó exactamente, en qué contexto, por qué, con quién se involucró, etc. Esto recién se resuelve al final, en las últimas páginas, y todo lo del medio sirve casi como introducción a lo que se revelará después. Avendo ormai esaurito le letture originali (incluso Poodle Springs, che consiste in 10 pagine di Chandler e una trecentina, trascurabili di Robert Parker), ho scoperto che il famoso scrittore irlandese John Banville aveva pubblicato sotto pseudonimo questa "Philip Marlowe novel", ben recensita sulla stampa americana.

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This is the only PM appearance for Judith Ames, better known as Rachel Ames. Rachel Ames has appeared on the soap opera General Hospital since 1964...MikeM. 8/29/2016 + IMDb says that Rachel Ames run on "General Hospital" ended in 2015. Wikipedia says Rachel Ames is now 88 years old...MikeM. 6/11/2018

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The Cahuilla Club. Do you know it? It's in the Palisades. Polo grounds, swimming pools, lots of bright, shiny people. The kind of place that wouldn't let a shamus like you put his foot inside the electronically controlled gates." That last bit she didn't say, but I heard it all the same. Marlowe visits Peterson's grave and encounters a mourning woman but she escapes before he can talk to her. Marlowe convinces his friend, homicide detective Joe Green, to open a murder investigation now they know the body was not Peterson's. Green admonishes Marlowe for his relentless pursuit of the truth and reveals that the body was identified by the Corbata Club owner, Floyd Hanson. Marlowe meets with Hanson at the club, the pair failing to extract information from each other. While leaving, Marlowe notices the woman from the grave, Peterson's sister Lynn, and clandestinely agrees to meet with her at the Cabana club later that evening; their discussion is observed by Hanson. When he arrives, Marlowe is assaulted by two men but beats them unconscious. This is the first of three PM director credits for Roger Kay. Roger Kay was born (1921) in Cairo, Egypt. He passed in Paris, France, at the age of 79...MikeM. 8/29.2016 La trama es buena en general, pero hay algo que me faltó. El final no me pareció tan espectacular teniendo en cuenta todo lo que pasó antes. O sea, con todo el complejo que había sido todo lo que pasa en el medio del libro, me esperaba otro final más interesante. No digo que sea malo, pero fue algo así como intrascendente. She glanced at me with a steely twinkle. "For a living, you mean?" She pondered the question. "He sees people," she said.

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Around here there are days in high summer when the sun works on you like a gorilla peeling a banana" Was it a long time? I kept thinking I'd hear from him, that the phone would ring one day and he'd be calling from Mexico or somewhere." 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. Maybe I read it too closely, because I can see how it might have been an okay book, if only it weren't supposed to be a Marlowe one. For me, this was like a strange imitation Chandler, but not a parroting. It was more like the book was parading about in the skin of a Chandler book, and sometimes it would look like Chandler, but then I would notice a glaring imperfection that would shake me out of any illusions I had. La trama è interessante e complicata quanto si deve, in omaggio ai totem del genere. Le atmosfere sono convincenti, i personaggi sono ben costruiti, si riconoscono i riferimenti ai clichè ma a un appassionato questo non dispiace. Il colpo di scena non arriva certo inaspettato, per i chandleriani (anche perchè preparato da indizi che i conoscitori del filone marloweiano riconoscono abbastanza facilmente), ma chiude efficacemente una storia che fin lì aveva funzionato bene e, si sa, il rischio è che si guasti proprio al momento che sarebbe destinato agli applausi finali. Se uno scrittore (bravo, ovviamente, come Banville dimostra di essere) può scrivere una "Philip Marlowe novel" così autentica, bella, divertente, accattivante, cosa resta della real thing?Asking Diana if she had "a tailored suit", and then saying that the blue one selected by the matron was unacceptable, was merely a ruse used by Mr. Mason to gain access to her apartment and have the opportunity to search for her roommate's diary. jfh 29Aug2016. At the Cahuilla, as it happens. A Sunday afternoon. My husband was engaged in a particularly strenuous chukker. That's a—"

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Somewhere Raymond Chandler is smiling, because this is a beautifully rendered hardboiled novel that echoes Chandler's melancholy at perfect pitch. The story is great, but what amazed me is how John Banville caught the cumulative effect Chandler's prose had on readers. It's hard to quantify, but it's also what separated the Marlowe novels from the general run of noir (which included some damn fine novelists, like David Goodis and Jim Thompson). The sadness runs deep. I loved this book. It was like having an old friend, one you assumed was dead, walk into the room. Kind of like Terry Lennox, hiding behind those drapes. ( Stephen King) The Irish understudy takes on Chandler's habits convincingly. The Marlowe books have a paradoxical tone of energetic weariness, which this imitation echoes in numerous lines. Visiting a witness, the detective reports that he "lowered himself into one of the armchairs. It was so deep my knees nearly gave me an uppercut." Painted roses on a bedside lamp throw shadows that look like "bloodstains someone had started to wash away and then given up on". Marlowe': Liam Neeson suitably world-weary as the tough private eye". Chicago Sun-Times. 13 February 2023. Archived from the original on 13 February 2023 . Retrieved 14 February 2023.A suspenseful, professional-grade north country procedural whose heroine, a deft mix of compassion and attitude, would be welcome to return and tie up the gaping loose end Box leaves. The unrelenting cold makes this the perfect beach read. All in all, one of the tidiest plots in the series, but I, too, question Perry’s decision about Bobby. Bobby, for practical purpose, was orphaned. Seems the wiser resolution would be to give Bartlett the chance to adopt him. DOD 07/06/20 Marlowe (2023) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Nash Information Services, LLC . Retrieved 10 March 2023. When I was young, a couple of millennia ago, I used to think I knew what I was doing. I was aware of the world’s caprices—the goat dances it likes to do with our hopes and desires—but where my own actions were concerned, I was pretty confident that I was sitting square in the driver’s seat, with the wheel held firmly in my own two hands. Now I know different. Now I know that decisions we think we make are in fact made only in hindsight, and that at the time things are actually happening, all we do is drift."