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| Coming July 2018 |
Lawrence Osborne brings one of literature's most enduring detectives, Private Investigator Philip Marlowe, back to life for one last adventure
It takes a lot to surprise me these days, but I was literally gobsmacked when I read a recent email from Penguin Random House offering me an ARC for a new Philip Marlowe novel to review.
There hasn't been a new Marlowe novel since Robert B. Parker completed in 1990 Raymond Chandler's Poodle Springs, the eighth Philip Marlowe novel, three decades after Chandler started it in 1959. But, there soon will be when Only To Sleep by Lawrence Osborne is released this July.
Who among us true blue hard-boiled fans haven't wished we could read a new Philip Marlowe novel just one more time. If you're one of those fans, you will soon have the opportunity. Lucky me. I'm reading it right now, and I'll be publishing my review right here at Best Crime Thriller Books in the next week or so.
Here is a brief synopsis...
The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. And Philip Marlowe—now in his seventy-second year—is living out his retirement in the terrace bar of the La Fonda hotel. Sipping margaritas, playing cards, his silver-tipped cane at the ready. When in saunter two insurance men dressed like undertakers, with a case that has Marlowe's name written all over it.
Set between the border and badlands of Mexico and California, Lawrence Osborne's resurrection of the iconic Marlowe is touted as an unforgettable addition to the Raymond Chandler canon.
Coming This October
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