L.A. private eye Philip Marlowe takes on a blackmail case and follows a trail peopled with murderers, pornographers, nightclub rogues and the spoiled rich.
Parker finishes a Chandler novel which finds Marlowe married and living in the plush mecca of Poodle Springs. Marlowe is up to his usual roughouse ways and finds a darker side of this seemingly tranquil town.
Parker finishes a Chandler novel which finds Marlowe married and living in the plush mecca of Poodle Springs. Marlowe is up to his usual roughouse ways and finds a darker side of this seemingly tranquil town.
Three early mystery novels--The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, and The High Window--introduce the world of hardboiled 1930s private detective Philip Marlow.
California private investigator Philip Marlowe, hired by a wealthy matron to track down a valuable missing coin, begins to dig deeper when he realizes the facts do not add up.
