The Economist (US), April 28th, 1990
TURNING up his trenchcoat collar against the familiar wind and rain of his Los Angeles, Philip Marlowe is once more on the prowl, tripping over corpses, tracking down the guilty and extricating the innocent. It is 50 years since Raymond Chandler created his golden-hearted gumshoe, and 30 years since he died leaving behind an unfinished Marlowe novel which Robert Parker has now completed. So there are traces of time-warping. The 1930s, the setting for "The Big Sleep", are suggested by all those japanese servants and by some of the drinking and smoking manners; but in that case, what about the...
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