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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Philip Marlowe obviously doesn’t like his new client – a nice-looking, quaint, modest young girl, an obedient daughter of a religious mother. Is it just because she disapproves of smoking and drinking? Or is there something more behind his rudeness? ESP, probably?
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