Obediently, Marlowe follows her-all the way to Esmerelda, where she's going under the name Betty Mayfield and being leaned on by a cheap blackmailer. The lady in question, Eleanor King, is beautiful, classy and clearly unhappy. Clyde Umney instructs him to meet the eight o'clock train from Chicago, and shadow one of the passengers. In Playback, Marlowe is awakened early in the morning by a phone call from a lawyer. California in the '40s and '50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily. Toby Stephens stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Raymond Chandler's final completed Philip Marlowe mystery.įast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. Categories Adult Fiction, Plays and Dramatisations
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