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The genre originated in the 1920s, notably in Black Mask magazine, in which Dashiell Hammett 's The Continental Op and Sam Spade first appeared. Marlowe first appeared under that name in The Big Sleep, published in 1939.
Feb 15, 2024 · The Chandler Estate first licensed a new Marlowe novel in 1989 by hiring Robert B. Parker to complete “Poodle Springs” — unfinished at the time of Chandler’s death, in 1959, at age 70.
- Nate Rogers
Despite the tough front Marlowe puts up, on the inside he is good and almost sensitive. We see this clearly in the fact that he tells Carmen his name is Doghouse Reilly, even though his real name is Philip Marlowe.
Based on the 2014 novel The Black-Eyed Blonde by John Banville, writing under the pen name Benjamin Black, the film stars Liam Neeson as private detective Philip Marlowe, a fictional character created by Raymond Chandler, and features Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Alan Cumming, Francois Arnaud, Ian Hart, Danny Huston ...
Philip Marlowe, fictional character, the protagonist of seven novels by Raymond Chandler. Marlowe is a hard-boiled private detective working in the seamy underworld of Los Angeles from the 1930s through the 1950s.
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May 5, 2008 · Hard-boiled is the phrase most often used to describe Raymond Chandler's quintessential private eye, Philip Marlowe. The truth is: It isn't Marlowe who is hard-boiled, it's the world he lives...
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Dec 17, 1995 · American-born but educated in England, he was a mild-mannered man who wore tweed jackets and smoked a pipe, and lived in a succession of nondescript homes with his invalid wife, Cissy. Throughout...
