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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.

Subjects

• california, fiction
• fiction
• fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled
• los angeles (calif.), fiction
• marlowe, philip (fictitious character), fiction
• open library staff picks
• philip marlowe (fictitious character)
• private investigators
• private investigators, fiction