The story starts when Dorothy Wynant, a pretty girl of twenty, asks Nick Charles, a retired private detective, to help her find her father and arrange a meeting with him. She hadn’t seen her father since her parents’ divorce and misses him, but knows her mother would strongly disapprove of the meeting. Still, the beginning seems innocent enough until the personal secretary of Dorothy’s father is found dead in her own apartment with four bullets in her body.
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This is the first novel about Philip Marlowe – a young and hard-boiled Californian private investigator. As always, he won’t bend to either the police, the client or the most sinister criminals – so at one moment he finds himself in a very awkward situation – but escapes miraculously. And he never compromises his values.
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This book is a typical American bestseller with a nice collection of testimonials printed on the back of the cover – all rapture and delight. Inside we’ll find a collection of fine characters – half of them total weirdos, but still calling for sympathy, others of a more self-confident, perfectionist type. Breda Burrows represents the second type. So does the mysterious fugitive.
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