One of the best and most personal novel's by one of the greatest mystery writers of all time.
When a friend of private investigator Philip Marlowe's shows up at his house begging the detective to drive him to Tijuana airport, he agrees. Both his friend and his friend's wife turn up dead, and when another case of Marlowe's turns out to have connections to his friend's death, he is determined to uncover what actually happened. Robert Gould played Marlowe in the 1973 film adaptation.
