Only to Sleep

Resumen del libro

Wealthy dead American. Beautiful young widow. This case has PI Philip Marlowe's name written all over it.

Is it enough to bring him back for one last adventure?The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. Private Investigator Philip Marlowe - now in his seventy-second year - has been living out his retirement in the terrace bar of the La Fonda hotel.

Sipping margaritas, playing cards, his silver-tipped cane at the ready. When in saunter two men dressed like undertakers. With a case that has his name written all over it.

At last Marlowe is back where he belongs. His mission is to investigate Donald Zinn - supposedly drowned off his yacht, leaving a much younger and now very rich wife. Marlowe's speciality.

But is Zinn actually alive? Are the pair living off the spoils? Set between the border and badlands of Mexico and California, Lawrence Osborne's resurrection of the iconic Marlowe is an unforgettable addition to the Raymond Chandler canon

Biografía del autor

Lawrence Osborne (1958) nació en Inglaterra, pero ha vivido y trabajado en diversos países de todo el mundo: Nueva York, México, Estambul o Bangkok, ciudad donde reside en la actualidad. Estudió Lenguas Modernas en Cambridge, ciudad en la que publicó su primera novela: Ania Malina (1986). En 2010 obtuvo el Premio Napoli y en 2012 publicó la novela Perdonar (editada en catalán por Navona), que fue considerada uno de los mejores libros del año por The Economist, Library Journal y The Guardian. Otras obras suyas son The Wet and the Dry (2013), The Ballad of a Small Player (2014), Beautiful Animals (2017) o Cazadores en la noche (2019). Osborne colabora habitualmente en el New York Times Magazine, así como en la edición internacional de Newsweek.