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Description

A movie starlet with a gangster boyfriend and a pair of siblings with a shared secret lure Marlowe into the less than glamorous and more than a little dangerous world of Hollywood fame. Chandler's first foray into the industry that dominates the company town that is Los Angeles.

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First Sentence

The pebbled glass door panel is lettered in flaked black paint: 'Philip Marlowe. . . Investigations'.

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  1. Raymond Chandler (Author)
 

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