Playback (novel)
Playback is a novel by Raymond Chandler, featuring the private detective Philip Marlowe. It was published in 1958, the year before Chandler died. It was his last completed novel.
Plot summary
At the beginning of 1952 (some 18 months after the parting of Marlowe and Linda Loring in The Long Goodbye). Marlowe is faced with the choice of turning against his client and taking up the cause of the subject he was hired to investigate, an attractive woman on the run with whom he eventually becomes emotionally entangled.
Through intermediaries, an anonymous client hires Marlowe to find Betty Mayfield, who is traveling under the name Eleanor King. Marlowe trails Mayfield to the small coastal resort town of Esmeralda, California.
During her train ride west, Mayfield had been recognized by a man who then tried to blackmail her, for reasons disclosed at the end of the story. While Marlowe is poking around Esmeralda, the blackmailer is found dead on the balcony of Mayfield's hotel room. She panics and calls Marlowe for help.
Playback
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Playback (Sam Lazar album)
Playback is an album by organist Sam Lazar released on the Argo label.
Reception
Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating "it's a solid organ-based album sure to please fans of the genre... An entertaining album worth the search.
Track listing
All compositions by Sam Lazar except as indicated
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Playback (Phi Life Cypher album)
Playback is the fourth album by the Luton-based hip hop group Phi Life Cypher. It mostly comprises new material, but also contains A-sides not released on previous Phi-Life Cypher albums ("Over", "Cypher Funk", "The Shining") and tracks from other artists which featured Phi-Life Cypher ("Cordless Mics at 20 Paces", "Distinguished Jamaican English", "Ghetto Rebels").
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Moon of Israel (novel)
Moon of Israel is a novel by Rider Haggard, first published in 1918 by John Murray. The novel narrates the events of the Biblical Exodus from Egypt told from the perspective of a scribe named Ana.
Haggard dedicated his novel to Sir Gaston Maspero, a distinguished Egyptologist and director of Cairo Museum.
Adaptation
His novel was the basis of a script by Ladislaus Vajda, for film-director Michael Curtiz in his 1924 Austrian epic known as Die Sklavenkönigin, or "Queen of the Slaves".
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Novel (disambiguation)
A novel is a long prose narrative.
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1633 (novel)
1633 is an alternate history novel co-written by Eric Flint and David Weber, and sequel to 1632 in the 1632 series. 1633 is the second major novel in the series and together with the anthology Ring of Fire, the two sequels begin the series hallmarks of being a shared universe with collaborative writing being very common, as well as one—far more unusual— which mixes many canonical anthologies with its works of novel length. This in part is because Flint wrote 1632 as a stand-alone novel, though with enough "story hooks" for an eventual sequel, and because Flint feels "history is messy", and the books reflect that real life is not a smooth polished linear narrative flow from the pen of some historian, but is instead clumps of semi-related or unrelated happenings that somehow sum together where different people act in their own self-interests.
Premise
The series begins in the Modern era on May 31, 2000, during a small town wedding when the small West Virginia town of Grantville trades places in both time and geographic location with a nearly unpopulated countryside region within the Holy Roman Empire during the convulsions of the Thirty Years' War.
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