9The Black-Eyed Blonde: A Philip Marlowe Novel by Benjamin Black
While you are having a nice day in the sun, prepare yourself a cocktail and enjoy some mystery.
Benjamin Black wrote this new Philip Marlowe novel that has all the panache and charm of the originals while delivering a story that is as sharp and fresh as today’s best crime fiction.
The reader is taken on a nostalgic – but deadly – trip back to 1950s Los Angeles and Santa Monica that finds Marlowe in his stifling office on a summer day, bored, lonely, waiting for his new client to show up.
What would a Chandler mystery be without a beautiful blonde dame from a wealthy family who lies and deceives the gumshoe from the start? She will surely keep you captivated.
