Stalking the tawdry neon wilderness of forties and fifties Los Angeles, Raymond Chandler�s hard-drinking, wise-cracking Phillip Marlowe is one of the world�s most famous fictional detectives.

�Playback� finds Marlowe mixing business with pleasure � getting paid to follow a mysterious and lovely red-head named Eleanor King. And wherever Miss King goes, trouble seems to follow. But she�s easy on the eye and Marlowe�s happy to do as he�s told, all in the name of chivalry, of course. But one dead body later and what started out as a lazy afternoon�s snooping soon becomes a deadly cocktail of blackmail, lies, mistaken identity � and murder�