'Denise Mina is a one-of-a-kind storyteller' James PattersonThis is Marlowe. Mr. Philip
Marlowe? She asked. I glanced at the clock. It was exactly eleven am as if she had been
waiting by the phone for an appointed hour following someone else's orders to the letter. What
d'you think we're a troupe of brothers? There is only me. It's mid-September a heatwave has
descended on the parched hills of LA and Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the
Montgomery estate an almost mythic place sitting high on top of Beverly Hills. Wealthy
twenty-two-year-old Chrissie Montgomery set to inherit an enormous fortune is missing. She's
a walking target ripe for someone to get their claws into. Her dying father along with his
sultry bottle blonde girlfriend wants her found before that happens. They've hired Anna
Riorden Marlowe's nemesis too. The search takes them to the roughest neighbourhoods of LA
through dive bars and Skid Row. And that's before he finds the body at The Brody Hotel. Who
will get to her first Marlowe Anne or the men chasing her fortune? And does she want to be
found? Discover the rest of the inimitable Philip Marlowe series - nine classic Chandler
adventures from The Big Sleep to The Long Goodbye available now in paperback and eBook from
Penguin Books.______________________________ Readers love The Second Murderer: 'I must
congratulate Denise Mina for bravely stepping into the shoes of Raymond Chandler and continuing
the tales of the much loved Philip Marlowe... I think the author has done a great job capturing
the essence of Marlowe such as his duelling dialogue with other characters or his descriptions
of the heat soaked LA landscape in midsummer. The Chandler sarcastic humour is also
present....one line I cant seem to find but from memory was something like... this place was so
sleazy even the rats had to wipe their feet on the way out. Brilliant! I encourage all fans of
the genre to read this book. It is very well written and much like Chandlers books the
descriptions are so vivid you feel you are in each scene.' Michael N. 5 stars
