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In Chandler's final novel, Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never heard of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but decides he prefers to help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it.

subjects: Private investigators,  Open Library Staff Picks,  Fiction,  Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character),  Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled,  Marlowe, philip (fictitious character), fiction,  California, fiction,  Los angeles (calif.), fiction,  Private investigators, fiction

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