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Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out - and that's before he stumbles over the first corpse …

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Customer Review: 23 March 2009

Reviewer: Jonty H. Campbell

'Never mind the murky plot that gets even muddier halfway through. Simply marvel at the brisk pace, the filmic style, the clean, pared down metaphor, the pointed, sassy dialogue. Smile with astonishment at Chandler''s imitated but rarely bettered use of almost delicious similes. An American Gothic novel. Rewards re-reading and serves as a manual on how to write well. '

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