The Black-Eyed Blonde (Philip Marlowe)

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She was taller than she had seemed when I saw her from the window, tall and slender with broad shoulders and trim hips. Bestseller Black’s understated but highly effective fifth crime novel featuring 1950s Dublin pathologist Quirke (after 2011’s A Death in Summer) offers a provocative whydunit. She sat down in front of my desk on the chair I had pointed her to and took off her gloves finger by finger, studying me with her steady black eyes. How beautiful she was, standing in the sun in her cool white linen, with all that shining glass and candy-pink stone behind her.

The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Novel (Philip Marlowe Series) The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Novel (Philip Marlowe Series)

When I struck a match and offered it across the desk she leaned forward and bent her head, with dipped lashes, and touched a fingertip briefly to the back of my hand. 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. It's tightly plotted, has its share of blunt violence and wise-cracks, as well as descriptions of L. 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.

Marlowe had its world premiere on 24 September 2022, as the closing film of the 70th San Sebastián International Film Festival. While the mystery is well-plotted, Black elevates it beyond mere thoughtful homage with a plausible injection of emotion in his wounded lead.

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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. Toxteth tells Marlowe that Peterson was a serial womanizer and regularly imported cocaine from Tijuana. Green admonishes Marlowe for his relentless pursuit of the truth and reveals that the body was identified by the Corbata Club owner, Floyd Hanson. Certain character traits were just wrong, such as huge gaps in common knowledge that I would certainly expect him to be aware of, I mean, not knowing what a Shriner was? Reader Keating’s soft Irish voice can turn gruff and harsh on a dime in this seventh entry in Black’s series about Quirke, a consultant pathologist in 1950s Dublin.Perhaps Chandler could have written a better Marlowe novel, but I can't think of anyone else who could.

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That smile: it was like something she had set a match to a long time ago and then left to smolder on by itself. Parker finished up with Chandler’s iconic character in the early nineties with his sequel to The Big Sleep, “Perchance to Dream” (a review from The New York Times suggested an alternate title of “Sleep Bigger” – much better), no one dared to touch Marlowe until nearly twenty five years later when Benjamin Black was given his own opportunity with the character. Marlowe visits Peterson's grave and encounters a mourning woman but she escapes before he can talk to her. Do not forget to read: Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: A Centennial Celebration it has some excellent stories with Marlowe. 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.The title character, Clare Cavendish, wanders into Marlowe’s office to ask him to trace her lover, Nico Peterson, who disappeared two months earlier. Cars trickled past in the street below the dusty window of my office, and a few of the good folks of our fair city ambled along the sidewalk, men in hats, mostly, going nowhere.