We are pleased to present you with one of this month's new 1st in Series mysteries: The Black-Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black and introducing Philip Marlowe.
What we know about the character: Philip Marlowe is the private investigator created by Raymond Chandler, here in a new series set in the early 1950s on the mean streets of Bay City, California.
For more information about his first case, see a synopsis of the book, below.
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The Black-Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black
Series: A Philip Marlowe Mystery
Publisher: Henry Holt
Format(s): Hardcover, eBook
It is the early 1950s. Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and business is a little slow. Then a new client is shown in: young, beautiful, and expensively dressed, she wants Marlowe to find her former lover, a man named Nico Peterson. Marlowe sets off on his search, but almost immediately discovers that Peterson's disappearance is merely the first in a series of bewildering events.
Soon he is tangling with one of Bay City's richest families and developing a singular appreciation for how far they will go to protect their fortune.
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