![]() ![]() ![]() California the setting for a complex chain which leads back to a former suicide (murder), and develops three new killings, blackmail, and counterfeit. Review: Tight, bright tale which brings back Philip Marlowe, private detective, who is hired to find a missing coin. If Marlowe doesn't wrap this one up fast, he's going to end up in jail or worse, in a box in the ground. That's also unlucky for a private investigator, because leaving a trail of corpses around LA gets cops' noses out of joint. It becomes more complicated when Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead. Summary Philip Marlowe's on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. Notes First published by Hamish Hamilton, 1943 published in Penguin Books, 1951. ![]() Remains particularly well-preserved overall tight, bright, clean and strong. Very good paperback copy edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. ![]()
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