Description
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....
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....
Book Details
Format
eBook
Pages
224 pages
Language
English
Published
Jul 7, 2005
Publisher
Penguin Books
Editions
144 editions
ISBN-10
0141911166
ISBN-13
9780141911168