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Only to sleep

"Lawrence Osborne brings one of literature's most enduring detectives back to life - as Private Investigator Philip Marlowe returns for one last adventure. The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. And Philip Marlowe - now in his seventy-second year - is living out his retirement in th...

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Main Author: Osborne, Lawrence, 1958- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: London ; New York : Hogarth, [2018]
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Subjects:
Marlowe, Philip > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Private investigators > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula) > Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Summary: "Lawrence Osborne brings one of literature's most enduring detectives back to life - as Private Investigator Philip Marlowe returns for one last adventure. 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 men dressed like undertakers, with a case that has his name written all over it. For Marlowe, this is his last roll of the dice, his swan song. His mission is to investigate the death of Donald Zinn - supposedly drowned off his yacht, and leaving behind a much younger and now very rich wife. But is Zinn actually alive? Are the pair living off the spoils? Set between the border and badlands of Mexico and California, Lawrence Osborne's resurrection of the iconic Marlowe is an unforgettable addition to the Raymond Chandler canon"--
Item Description: A Philip Marlowe Novel.
Physical Description: 256 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9781524759612
1524759619
Author Notes: LAWRENCE OSBORNE was born in England but has traveled and lived all over the world. He is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Forgiven , The Ballad of a Small Player , Hunters in the Dark , and Beautiful Animals. He is the third writer, after John Banville (writing as Benjamin Black) and Robert B. Parker, to be asked by the Raymond Chandler Estate to write a new Philip Marlowe novel. In Only to Sleep , Osborne draws from his time working as a reporter on the Mexican border in the early 1990s. He has written for The New York Times Magazine , The New Yorker , Conde Nast Traveler , Forbes , Harper's , and other publications. He lives in Bangkok.

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