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Marlow goes looking for a doll named Velma. Wacky hijinks (actually, beatings and murders) ensue.
Vintage Crime, 1940, 304 pages
( Reads like all Chandler stories - smooth, similar to the last, still just as good. )
Also by Raymond Chandler: My reviews of The Long Goodbye and The Big Sleep.
My complete list of book reviews.
Vintage Crime, 1940, 304 pages
Eight years ago Moose Malloy and cute little redhead Velma were getting married - until someone framed Malloy for armed robbery. Now his stretch is up and he wants Velma back.
PI Philip Marlow meets Malloy one hot day in Hollywood and, out of the generosity of his jaded heart, agrees to help him. Dragged from one smoky bar to another, Marlowe's search for Velma turns up plenty of dangerous gangsters with a nasty habit of shooting first and talking later. And soon what started as a search for a missing person becomes a matter of life and death....
( Reads like all Chandler stories - smooth, similar to the last, still just as good. )
Also by Raymond Chandler: My reviews of The Long Goodbye and The Big Sleep.
My complete list of book reviews.
