Издательство: | Penguin Group |
Дата выхода: | декабрь 2011 |
ISBN: | 978-0-241-95432-4 |
Объём: | 304 страниц |
Обложка: | мягкая |
Her name is Orfamay Quest and she`s come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or leastways that`s what she tells PI Philip Marlowe, offering him a measly twenty bucks for the privilege. But Marlowe`s feeling charitable - though it`s not long before he wishes he wasn`t so sweet. You see, Orrin`s trail leads Marlowe to luscious movie starlets, uppity gangsters, suspicious cops and corpses with ice picks jammed in their necks. When trouble comes calling, sometimes it`s best to pretend to be