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by Raymond Chandler

1976Private investigatorsOpen Library Staff PicksFictionPhilip Marlowe (Fictitious character)Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled
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About this book

In Chandler's final novel, Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never heard of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but decides he prefers to help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it.

Themes & subjects

Private investigatorsOpen Library Staff PicksFictionPhilip Marlowe (Fictitious character)Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiledMarlowe, philip (fictitious character), fiction
First published 1976

Setting

Los Angeles (Calif.)CaliforniaLos Angeles

About the author

Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler

1888 – 1959

Author

Raymond Chandler

First published

1976

Pages

208

Read time

≈ 5h

Editions

35

Languages

English, Spanish, bul

Publisher

Ballantine Books

ISBN

9781597770590

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