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The Black Eyed Blonde

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The Black Eyed Blonde	comment	The Black-Eyed Blonde is an authorized sequel to the Raymond Chandler novel The Long Goodbye, starring Hardboiled Detective Philip Marlowe. It is written by Booker Prize winner John Banville under his crime writing alias of Benjamin Black.Beautiful perfume heiress, Clare Cavendish, comes to Philip Marlowe with a strange request: find her missing boyfriend. The twist is that he's been dead for almost two months, having died in a car accident outside a swanky nightclub.Investigating the circumstances of the man's death, Philip soon finds himself caught between a millionaire, Mexican gangsters, and some of the homegrown variety of criminal. What happened to Nico Peterson and why does everyone think he's faked his death rather than actually died? What was everyone's interest in what seems like a two-bit grifter? Why does Clare seem more interested in seducing Philip than finding her dead lover?The book was losely adapted into the Marlowe (2022) starring Liam Neeson and Diane Kruger.
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The Black Eyed Blonde / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
The Black Eyed Blonde / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Lynn Peterson is subjected to this before her murder by the Mexican gangsters.
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The Black Eyed Blonde / int_15395adc	type	The Mistress
The Black Eyed Blonde / int_15395adc	comment	The Mistress: Clare Cavendish has the male version of this with Nico Peterson, claiming she and her husband have an arrangement. She's actually sleeping with Terry Lennox from The Long Goodbye.
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The Black Eyed Blonde / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
The Black Eyed Blonde / int_1e1aa82a	comment	Diabolus ex Machina: Terry and Philip might have had to throw down or Terry could have gone after the heroin before the police got it but Everett just walks into the room, high as a kite, before killing Terry.
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The Black Eyed Blonde / int_241ca0d8	type	Back for the Dead
The Black Eyed Blonde / int_241ca0d8	comment	Back for the Dead: Terry Lennox heads back from Mexico, only to be killed by Everett Cavendish.
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The Black Eyed Blonde / int_41077d9d	type	MacGuffin
The Black Eyed Blonde / int_41077d9d	comment	Macguffin: All of this is over ten kilos of heroin that Nico attempted to steal before deciding give back to his boss via Marlowe. Marlowe, of course, decides to hand it over to the cops instead.
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The Black Eyed Blonde / int_44f2f8f1	type	SavageSouth
The Black Eyed Blonde / int_44f2f8f1	comment	Savage South: Mexico is shown as a crime ridden location that is dominated by ruthless gangsters. At least the parts that Philip deals with.
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The Black Eyed Blonde / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
The Black Eyed Blonde / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: Lou Hendricks is a grossly overweight man as well as a ruthless gangster.
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The Black Eyed Blonde / int_7cbba5d3	type	Ruthless Foreign Gangsters
The Black Eyed Blonde / int_7cbba5d3	comment	Ruthless Foreign Gangsters: The Mexicans, Lopez and Gomez, are a pair of rapists and murderers who put Nico as well as other locals to shame.
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The Black Eyed Blonde / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
The Black Eyed Blonde / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: Philip Marlowe is a great deal more tolerant of gay people, minorities, and criminals in general than his Raymond Chandler counterpart. Notably, his character in those books were also Fair for Its Day.
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The Black Eyed Blonde / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
The Black Eyed Blonde / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Philip comes away with this feeling for Terry Lennox, believing that he became a Fallen Hero when he accepted jobs for Mendy Mendez.
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The Black Eyed Blonde / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Black Eyed Blonde / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Lopez and Gomez are subjected to Cold-Blooded Torture and execution. It couldn't have happened to a nicer pair of guys.
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The Black Eyed Blonde / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
The Black Eyed Blonde / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Clare Cavendish is one of these, seducing Philip Marlowe on behalf of her lover, Terry Lennox.
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The Black Eyed Blonde / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
The Black Eyed Blonde / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: More like Veronica and Veronica. Philip is still pining for Linda Loring when he starts developing feelings for Clare Cavendish, who is also an intelligent millionaire with a sketchy family.
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The Black Eyed Blonde / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
The Black Eyed Blonde / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Nico Peterson stole a bunch of heroin, blackmailed his gay hotel manager associate to help him fake his death, and got his sister to identify his body. This results in a massive manhunt for him after Clare Cavendish spies him in San Fransisco before telling her boyfriend, Terry Lennox, who passes it along to his gangster boss.
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The Black Eyed Blonde / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Black Eyed Blonde / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Nico Peterson escapes to become a gigolo working on a cruise ship with no serious consequences despite his involvement in multiple murders, including getting his sister killed.
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The Black Eyed Blonde / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
The Black Eyed Blonde / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Averted despite Chandler's frequent use of this as Philip gets knocked out by a pistol blow to the face and later being drugged.
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The Black Eyed Blonde / int_b5b4bd37	type	The Don
The Black Eyed Blonde / int_b5b4bd37	comment	The Don: Lou Hendricks is one of the most powerful criminals in Bay City. Mendy Mendez is a Mexican gangster who is the owner of the heroin that Nico stole.
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The Black Eyed Blonde / int_c78e289b	type	Chandler's Law
The Black Eyed Blonde / int_c78e289b	comment	Chandler's Law: Philip's meeting with Lynn Peterson is interrupted by two Mexican gangsters who proceed to beat the living stuffing out of him.
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The Black Eyed Blonde / int_cfc52d52	type	Spoiled Brat
The Black Eyed Blonde / int_cfc52d52	comment	Spoiled Brat: Nico Peterson grew up the son of a millionaire but rebelled to become a petty criminal. Everett "Rett" Cavendish is a dope-addicted Manchild that murders Terry Lennox.
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The Black Eyed Blonde / int_e150c4c7	type	Manchild
The Black Eyed Blonde / int_e150c4c7	comment	Everett "Rett" Cavendish is a dope-addicted Manchild that murders Terry Lennox.
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The Black Eyed Blonde / int_e404c1ba	type	Go Seduce My Archnemesis
The Black Eyed Blonde / int_e404c1ba	comment	Go Seduce My Archnemesis: This turns out to have been Terry Lennox's plan in order to get Philip Marlowe involved. He dispatches Clare Cavendish to do so.
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The Black Eyed Blonde / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
The Black Eyed Blonde / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Everyone assumes that Nico Peterson did this to escape his enemies. They're right and he finally shows up in the final part of the book, revealing he substituted a random body that he had his sister identify as his own.
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