I know it sounds corny, but I could drill you and get away with it. n Okay, I said thickly. For fifty bucks a day I dont get shot. That costs seventy-five. n n Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is mixing business with pleasure - hes getting paid to follow a lovely mysterious redhead called Eleanor King. And wherever Miss King goes, trouble is sure to follow. But shes easy on the eye and Marlowes happy to do as hes told. But one dead body later and what started out as a lazy afternoons snooping soon becomes a deadly cocktail of blackmail, lies, mistaken identity - and murder . . . n n Playback is Raymond Chandlers last full-length novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe. n n Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since Paul Auster n n Chandler grips the mind from the first sentence Daily Telegraph n n One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain Sunday Times n n Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes Anthony Burgess n n Discover the newest addition to the inimitable Philip Marlowe series - Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne - out 6 September 2018 in hardback and ebook from Hogarth. n