The Black-Eyed Blonde
About this book
"Maybe it was time I forgot about Nico Peterson, and his sister, and the Cahuilla Club, and Clare Cavendish. Clare? The rest would be easy to put out of my mind, but not the black-eyed blonde... It is the early 1950s. In Los Angeles, Private Detective Philip Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and business is a little slow. Then a new client arrives: young, beautiful, and expensively dressed, Clare Cavendish wants Marlowe to find her former lover, a man named Nico Peterson. Soon Marlowe will find himself not only under the spell of the Black-Eyed Blonde; but tangling with one of Bay City's richest families - and developing a singular appreciation for how far they will go to protect their fortune... In this gripping and deeply evocative crime novel, Benjamin Black returns us to the dark, mesmerising world of Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye and his singular detective Philip Marlowe, one of the most iconic and enduringly popular detectives in crime fiction."--Publisher's description.
Reader Profile
3.9/5 · 81 readers · 352 pages · ≈ 6 h 31 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read The Black-Eyed Blonde?
About ≈ 6 h 31 m — 352 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is The Black-Eyed Blonde?
352 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is The Black-Eyed Blonde?
It sits on the Fiction shelves.
Has The Black-Eyed Blonde been made into a movie or TV show?
Yes — screen adaptations include Marlowe (2023), Marlowe (2022).
Is The Black-Eyed Blonde in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote The Black-Eyed Blonde?
John Banville & Benjamin Black (1945–0).