Denise Mina reimagines Raymond Chandler's famed and troubled
detective Philip Marlowe in this gritty thriller set in 1940s Los
Angeles.
"This is Marlowe." "Mr. Philip Marlowe?" She asked. I
glanced at the clock. It was exactly eleven am, as if she had been
waiting by the phone for an appointed hour, following someone
else's orders to the letter. "What, d'you think we're a troupe of
brothers? There is only me."
It's mid-September, a heatwave has
descended on the parched hills of LA and Private Detective Philip
Marlowe is called to the Montgomery estate, an almost mythic place
sitting high on top of Beverly Hills. Wealthy twenty-two-year-old
Chrissie Montgomery, set to inherit an enormous fortune, is
missing. She's a walking target, ripe for someone to get their
claws into. Her dying father, along with his sultry bottle blonde
girlfriend, wants her found before that happens. They've hired Anna
Riorden, Marlowe's nemesis, too.
The search takes them to the
roughest neighbourhoods of LA through dive bars and Skid Row. And
that's before he finds the body at The Brody Hotel.
Who will get to
her first, Marlowe, Anne, or the men chasing her fortune? And does
she want to be found?
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