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17 hours ago · “The Underground Man” is the 16th Lew Archer book, and the private detective shares prominence with Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe and Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade. The title of the book is an odd reference to that body found in the open shallow grave, which hadn’t been filled in completely.
17 hours ago · Zwischen Upper Class und Gosse: Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandlers legendärer Hardboiled-Schnüffler, ermittelt im Kalifornien der 1930er Jahre. Diskussion über vier Bücher SWR Bestenliste Juli ...
17 hours ago · La Jolla (under the fictionalized name "Esmerelda") is the setting for Raymond Chandler's final Philip Marlowe novel, Playback, published in 1958. Chandler lived in La Jolla for the previous decade. La Jolla's Hotel del Charro becomes "Rancho Descansado" in the novel. A number of landmarks described can still be found today.
17 hours ago · Steampunk is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world wherein steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found ...
