Philip Marlowe, L.A.'s toughest private eye, ventures away from the city's mean streets, to search the mountains outside Los Angeles for a missing woman and unravels a tangled web of murder and deceptions.

Raymond Chandler began his writing career at age 45. His muscular, fast-paced style set the standard for American hardboiled mysteries. He destilled the essence of life in Southern California in the 1940s and 1950s in such novels as Farewell, My Lovely, The Little Sister, The Big Sleep, The High Window, Trouble is my Business, Red Wind and Playback (all available from New Millennium Audio).