Crime fiction master Raymond Chandler's third novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times).

A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortune—the elements don't quite add up until Marlowe discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and the worst kind of human exploitation.

"Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude." Erle Stanley Gardner

Author: Raymond Chandler
Publisher: Vintage Crime / Black Lizard
Pages: 272pp
Size: 5 x 8
Notes: paperback
Release Date: July 12, 1988
ISBN: 978-0394758268