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Poodle Springs (Paperback)

by Raymond Chandler (Author), Robert B. Parker (Author)
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 268 pages
  • Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks; New edition edition (7 Mar 1991)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0708848230
  • ISBN-13: 978-0708848234
  • Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.7 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 365,430 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Marlowe is now married, living in the resort town of Poodle Springs. He sets up as an investigator and soon finds himself in the middle of blackmail and murder. This is an unfinished novel by Raymond Chandler which has been completed by Robert B.Parker.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Not Your Usual Philip Marlowe Mystery -- Interesting!, 26 May 2004
By Professor Donald Mitchell "Jesus Makes Me a P... (Boston) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Poodle Springs (Charnwood Library) (Hardcover)
This is a novel mostly written by Robert Parker, drawing on four chapters started by Raymond Chandler at the end of his life. If you are looking for a great Marlowe story done just like the early ones, you will be disappointed. If you are glad to have one more chance to be with Marlowe, I think you will be pleased with the experience.

The story is a natural for Parker, because it involves Marlowe marrying a rich society woman on the spur of the moment. Having gotten together, they both realize that not all is right in this relationship. 'Can't live with him, can't live without him' could have been the title. The relationship raises a lot of the kinds of issues that Parker handles well in the Spenser stories between Spenser and Susan.

Marlowe keeps at his detective work, and we meet a whole cast of hard characters portrayed with wonderfully terse dialogue and understatement. Although not as tough as a Chandler, it is certainly tough in an appealing Parkerish way.

Having grown up in Southern California in the 1950s, I could relate to the tale that Chandler/Parker have woven. It seemed to fit my memory of those times, and had a sort of smoky, boozy nostalgia attached to it.

Give it a try. The first five chapters are only about 26 pages. You'll have a good sense whether or not you want to read more. I know I could not have possibly put it down at that point. I was hooked. Maybe you will be, too. I hope it will be irresistible for you as well.

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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Just not the same, 31 July 2009
By P. A. Irving (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Poodle Springs (Hardcover)
This novel starts wonderfully. It's a set-up for a genuinely promising next chapter in the indomitable Marlowe's life. The disparity between a rich, easy life and Marlowe's basic intolerance for just such a life provides a huge bank of material for Chandler to use to explore his ever present theme of disparity woven in at the very base of the fabric of American society. The interplay between Marlowe and his wife as they struggle to adjust to one another's needs is wonderful, as is the burgeoning relationship between Marlowe and his new butler, with whom he feels he has more in common than his new rich friends but cannot cross the class divide in order to properly befriend. There is build up to a complex plot where the supposed cultural difference between rich and poor is exposed for the myth that Chandler seems convinced that it is. And then...

...it isn't Chandler anymore. There's a shabby, two-dimensional montage of Chandler stories gone by, all written in a gritty, stereotypical American PI voice that has none of the style, colour or wit that you suddenly realise Chandler so uniquely has the ability to create.

I can't put my finger on when exactly Chandler ends and Parker takes over. But what I can say is that once I'd realised I wasn't reading Chandler anymore, I literally couldn't carry on reading the novel.

To be fair, if you're new to Chandler's novels and this is the first one, or if you are just reading it from the point of view of a neutral reader it's probably not an awful piece of writing. But then, if you're not a fan of Chandler, it's unlikely you'd have come across this novel in the first place.
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