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Stalking the tawdry neon wilderness of forties and fifties LA, Raymond Chandler's hard-drinking, wise-cracking Phillip Marlowe is one of the world's most well-known imaginary detectives. Playback finds Marlowe mixing business with pleasure - getting paid to check out a strange and lovely red-head called Eleanor Ruler. And wherever Pass up King will go, trouble seems to follow. But she's easy on the attention and Marlowe's happy to do as he's advised, all in the name of chivalry, of course. But one deceased body later and what began as a sluggish afternoon's snooping soon becomes a deadly cocktail of blackmail, lies, mistaken identification - and murder... Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and moved to England with his family when he was twelve. He went to Dulwich University, Alma Mater to some of the twentieth century's most renowned authors. Returning to America in 1912, he settled in California, performed in a number of careers, and later committed. It was through the Depression age that he critically turned his palm to writing and his first publicized story made an appearance in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six years later by his first book. The Big Sleeping introduced the earth to Philip Marlowe, the often imitated but never-bettered hard-boiled private investigator. It really is in Marlowe's long shadow that every imaginary detective must stand - and under the influence of Raymond Chandler's addictive prose that every crime author must write.
