Derace Kingsley, executive at a cosmetics company, "...can’t stand scandal.' But a month before he hired Marlowe, his wife went to Mexico for a divorce in order to marry a playboy named Lavery. However, the wife’s car...

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired to break up an unsuitable romance, find a missing dog, solve a murder, ransom a stolen necklace, and investigate a wife's mysterious disappearance, in a collection of four long mystery stories...

Sleuth Philip Marlowe soon discovers that his new case is more complicated than his beautiful and mysterious client had led him to believe, as he becomes entangled in the dangerous and glamorous world of Hollywood filmmaking. Reissue.

When a case of blackmail involving the daughter of a California millionaire leads to murder, the inimitable Philip Marlowe is stirred into action as he becomes embroiled in a troublesome case of extortion complicated by kidnapping, po...