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Only to Sleep

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By (author): Lawrence Osborne

Wealthy dead American. Beautiful young widow. This case has PI Philip Marlowes 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 is living out his retirement sipping margaritas and playing cards when in saunter two men dressed like undertakers with a case that has his name written all over it.

His mission is to investigate Donald Zinn supposedly drowned off his yacht, leaving a much younger and now very rich wife. Marlowes speciality. But is Zinn actually alive? And are the pair living off the spoils?

'Osborne and Chandler are a perfect match' William Boyd


Discover the rest of the inimitable Philip Marlowe series nine classic Chandler adventures, from The Big Sleep to The Long Goodbye, available now in paperback and ebook from Penguin Books.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 181g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Jul 2019
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781784706371

About Lawrence Osborne

Born in England Lawrence Osborne is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Forgiven The Ballad of a Small Player Hunters in the Dark Beautiful Animals Only to Sleep: A Philip Marlowe novel (commissioned by the Raymond Chandler estate) The Glass Kingdom and On Java Road. His non-fiction ranges from memoir through travelogue to essays including Bangkok Days The Naked Tourist and The Wet and the Dry. His short story 'Volcano' was selected for Best American Short Stories 2012. The Forgiven starring Ralph Fiennes Matt Smith and Jessica Chastain was released in 2022. Osborne lives in Bangkok.

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