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Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage series

For wise-cracking Private Eye Philip Marlowe, murder is all in a day’s work…

There are no streets meaner than those of L.A.’s underworld – but luckily one detective has more than his fair share of street smarts. Here, in the first two novels featuring the immortal creation Philip Marlowe, we see the cynical sleuth taking on a nasty case of blackmail involving a Californian millionaire and his two devil-may-care daughters; then dealing with a missing nightclub crooner (plus several gangsters with a habit of shooting first and talking later).

Publisher Review

Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since. -- Paul Auster One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards that others still try to attain. * Sunday Times *