We can also be glad that the re-animator behind “The Black-Eyed Blonde” is Benjamin Black, who writes his tonier books as John Banville and his delectably noir ones under this pseudonym. The results are Chandleresque, sure, but you can see Banville's sense of fun.Among the tentative book and story titles that Raymond Chandler left behind were “The Diary of a Loud Check Suit,” “The Man With the Shredded Ear,” “Stop Screaming - It’s Me” and “The Black-Eyed Blonde.” So we can be glad that last one became Chandler’s latest gift from beyond the grave: a much slinkier moniker that summons Chandler’s Philip Marlowe and the kinds of women who matched wits with him, slyly wrapping him around their dainty, lacquered fingers. "It's vintage L.A., toots: The hot summer, rain on the asphalt, the woman with the lipstick, cigarette ash and alienation, V8 coupes, tough guys, snub-nosed pistols, the ice melting in the bourbon.
The results are Chandleresque, sure, but you can see Banville's sense of fun."
Soon he is tangling with one of Bay City's richest and most ruthless families-and developing a singular appreciation for how far they will go to protect their fortune. Then a new client is shown in: blond, beautiful, and expensively dressed, she wants Marlowe to find her former lover.Īlmost immediately, Marlowe discovers that the man's disappearance is merely the first in a series of bewildering events. Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and the private eye business is a little slow. The streets of Bay City, California, in the early 1950s are as mean as they get. " It was one of those summer Tuesday afternoons when you begin to wonder if the earth has stopped revolving." It was like having an old friend, one you assumed was dead, walk into the room." Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe returns in The Black-Eyed Blonde-also published as Marlowe as by John Banville-the basis for the major motion picture starring Liam Neeson as the iconic detective.
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