Michael Paraskos

Philip Marlowe returns with bark but no bite

A review of Benjamin Black’s The Black-Eyed Blonde. Purists will baulk at the lack of vim to this reincarnation of Raymond Chandler's detective

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  • The Black-Eyed Blonde

    Benjamin Black

    Mantle, pp. 320

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