It is difficult to imagine the reader who could put it down unfinished. It is a shocking book – and a thrilling one. A giant who did not know his own strength, a Negro with a broken neck, a gin-drinking drab with a fine new radio, a ravishingly beautiful blonde with no morals and a husband who was rich and sadly tolerant, an Indian with the shoulders of a blacksmith and the legs of a chimpanzee, a charlatan who called himself a psychic consultant, a doctor with a plug-ugly for an assistant, a gambler and an honest cop and several crooked ones – such are the characters whom Marlowe, the private detective, meets in this tight, tense, and utterly fascinating novel of murder. There is a hint of cruelty at the very beginning, a hint of a world in which viciousness is normal and as the story develops, the atmosphere becomes increasingly malevolent and charged with evil.
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