R E K. (bigstone) - , reviewed on 1/22/2016 + 1438 more book reviews

Love vintage mysteries. This one finds Philip Marlowe involved with three murders. While he has been hired by a dying millionaire to help with the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, he finds kidnapping, murder and untangling a variety of criminal actions to discover what really happened. He is rather philosophic about the experience and at the end of the tale, the author describes his feelings.

"What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or on a marble slab on top of a high hill. You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep. The big sleep, you wre not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell..."

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