Red Wind - The Adventures of Philip Marlowe

by Raymond Chandler

Overview

CAST:
PHILIP MARLOWE, private detective
BARTENDER, young
BALDY, sadistic
WALDO, sarcastic
LOLA BARSALY (pronounced BAR-suh-lee)
EUGENIE KOLCHENKO, Frank's Slavic mistress
FRANK BARSALY, Lola's husband, famous hydro-electric engineer
YBARRA, (pronounced ee-BARE-uh) soft-spoken Latino homicide detective
MARLOWE:
(NARRATES) There was a rough desert wind blowing into Los Angeles that evening. It was one of those hot, dry Santa Ana's that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair, make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that, every booze party ends up in a fight. And meek little housewives feel the edge of a carving knife and study their husband's necks. Anything can happen when the Santa Ana blows in from the desert.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162422402
Publisher:	Gerald Murphy
Publication date:	02/22/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	528,086
File size:	127 KB

About the Author

Nobody but Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) could have created a private eye hero as cool as Philip Marlowe, but writers have been trying ever since the author's precedent-setting crime novels were published. Chandler wrote seven complete novels during his lifetime, with his first novel, The Big Sleep, debuting in 1939. Three of his novels are considered major literary works outside of the crime fiction genre: Farewell, My Lovely, The Little Sister, and The Long Goodbye. All but one of his novels were turned into movies, some several times.

Date of Birth:

July 23, 1888

Date of Death:

March 26, 1959

Place of Birth:

Chicago Illinois

Place of Death:

La Jolla, California

Education:

Educated in England, France, and Germany