Blonde in the lake Sister. Long goodbye. Reverse

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Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe books not only laid the foundation for the hardcore detective genre, but have become modern classics in the broadest sense. “Raymond Chandler is the most original stylist, and his hero Philip Marlowe is immortal, like Sherlock Holmes,” wrote the venerable Anthony Burgess. This edition contains the final four (out of seven) novels about the famous private investigator - "Blonde in the Lake", "Sister", "The Long Goodbye" and "Reverse". Marlowe represents a new type of detective hero: he is a romantic, sentimental knight, always retaining his individuality and respecting the code of honor. He is not looking for adventure - they find him themselves, and the plot, replete with signature dizzying intricacies, usually begins quite innocently. So in "Blonde in the Lake" the director of a large perfume company instructs Marlow to find his wife who has run away from a country house; in "Sister," a naive country girl from Manhattan, Kansas, pleads with a detective to find her missing brother in Los Angeles; in The Long Goodbye, Marlowe comes under police pressure after he refuses to help a friend in desperate need of it; and in “Backward Pass” he receives the task of following a certain Eleanor King, who arrives from Washington to Los Angeles on the “Superleader” express ... Several reference films noir have been staged on Chandler’s plots, and for many, the image of Marlowe is strongly associated with the personality of Humphrey Bogart. "Blonde in the Lake" was filmed in 1946 by Robert Montgomery, who himself played the main role, and it was one of the first films in world cinema, shot from beginning to end with a subjective camera. An adaptation of The Little Sisters starring James Garner was released in 1969 under the title Marlowe; it was this painting by Paul Bogart that first introduced American viewers to Bruce Lee. The Long Goodbye was brought to the screen in 1973 by Robert Altman; Elliot Gould starred, and the screenplay was written by Leigh Brackett, who co-wrote the screenplay with William Faulkner of The Eternal Dream, Howard Hawks' classic adaptation of the first Marlowe novel in 1946.

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Publication language: Russian

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