Omschrijving
Philip Marlowe, a private detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s, as he takes on a case involving a paralysed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail and murder.
Diane Johnson was born in Illinois and educated at the universities of Utah and California. She is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Le Marriage, Persian Nights and The Shadow Knows, two collections of essays, and biographies of Mary Ellen Peacock and Dashiell Hammett. She has also written screenplays and collaborated with Stanley Kubrick on The Shining. She lives in Paris and San Francisco with her husband.