Chandler's fifth Philip Marlowe novel. When an apparently naive young woman from Manhattan (Kansas, that is) hires Marlowe to find her missing brother, he doesn't imagine he'll soon be investigating the seamy side of Hollywood. All is not what it appears in Tinseltown. Dustjacket illustration by C. W. Bacon is amusingly perfect. A8.1.a. Hubin p. 152.
