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Only to Sleep
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne, read by Ray Porter.
Wealthy dead American. Beautiful young widow. This case has PI Philip Marlowe’s name written all over it. Is it enough to bring him back for one last adventure?
The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. Private Investigator Philip Marlowe – now in his seventy-second year – has been 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.
At last Marlowe is back where he belongs. His mission is to investigate Donald Zinn – supposedly drowned off his yacht, leaving a much younger and now very rich wife. Marlowe’s speciality. 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.
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- ELIZABETH
- 11-10-2018
Stylish and studied but lacking in pace
It's a while since I read any Chandler but I don't remember him being so entranced by description and so lacking in plot or interesting characters. Marlow is laconic to a fault and the narration by Ray Porter is spot-on but he doesn't have too much to work with. The plot, what little there is of it, seems to be driven by location.
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