Philip Marlowe is back on the job.

Or, well, he's about to be.

John Banville, under the name Benjamin Black, is writing a new book:

This idea has been germinating for several years and I relish the prospect of setting a book in Marlowe's California, which I always think of in terms of Edward Hopper's paintings. Bay City will have a slightly surreal, or hyper-real, atmosphere that I look forward to creating.