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Raymond Chandler
ISBN: 9780241956298
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
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Philip Marlowe's on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. That's the simple part. It becomes more complicated when Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead.
Philip Marlowe's on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. That's the simple part. It becomes more complicated when Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead. That's also unlucky for a private investigator, because leaving a trail of corpses around LA gets cops' noses out of joint. If Marlowe doesn't wrap this one up fast, he's going to end up in jail - or worse, in a box in the ground...
| ISBN | 0241956293 | | Pages | 288 | | ISBN13 | 9780241956298
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 194 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Penguin Books Ltd | | Previous ISBN | 9780140108934 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 28 Jul 2011 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Writer of introduction | Mark Billingham | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | DEWEY | 813.52 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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