Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesFor wisecracking Private Eye Philip Marlowe, murder is all in a days work...There are no streets meaner than those of L.A.s underworld but luckily one detective has more than his fair share of street smarts. Here, in the first two novels featuring the immortal creation Philip Marlowe, we see the cynical sleuth taking on a nasty case of blackmail involving a Californian millionaire and his two devilmaycare daughters then dealing with a missing nightclub crooner (plus several gangsters with a habit of shooting first and talking later).

Binding: Paperback;512 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FFC; Weight: 494 g; Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 25

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