(I gave up on it.) Black’s contribution, “The Black-Eyed Blonde,” by most accounts, is. The late Robert Parker, who finished a previous Marlowe book, “Poodle Springs,” was closer to Raymond Chandler’s sensibilities than Black, though the book by many accounts was not a success. He wasn’t the most likely crime writer, then, to be selected to write the latest Philip Marlowe novel. The Quirke crime novels written under the name Benjamin Black resolve who done it, but there’s a lingering question of how much others, beyond the reach of Irish law in the 1950s, have gotten away with. His novels often have an air of the supernatural in them but are thoroughly grounded in reality. The contrasts in John Banville’s writing are ever intriguing. Humphrey Bogart in "The Big Sleep." (Warner Brothers/YouTube) This article is more than 9 years old.
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