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.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.That's the simple part. 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. That's also unlucky for a private investigator, because leaving a trail of corpses around LA gets cops' noses out of joint.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 ...
- ISBN:
- 9781486299560
- 9781486299560
- Category:
- Crime & criminology
- Format:
- CD-Audio
- Publication Date:
- 01-09-2015
- Publisher:
- Audible/Bolinda Audio
- Weight:
- 0.5kg
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