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 ...
- ISBN10 0140108920
- ISBN13 9780140108927
- Publish Date 30 June 1988 (first published 1 June 1973)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 July 2011
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 272
- Language English