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Chandler, RaymondBillingham, Mark(Introduction by)
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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 .

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Penguin
0141911166 / 9780141911168
eBook (EPUB)
813.52
07/07/2005
England
English
Classic crime
189 pages
Copy: 10%; print: 10%
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