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Radio 4,22 Mar 2009,30 mins

Maggie Gee, and Los Angeles sleuth Philip Marlowe

Open Book

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Mariella Frostrup talks to Maggie Gee about her new novel My Driver. And 50 years after the death of Raymond Chandler, William Boyd explains why he thinks the creator of the hard-bitten Los Angeles sleuth Philip Marlowe was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

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