I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I
was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was
calling on four million dollars.
Los Angeles Private Investigator, Philip Marlowe is hired by
wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is blackmailing
him. A broken, weary old man, Sternwood just wants Marlowe to make
the problem go away. However, with Sternwood's two wild,
devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's
got his work cut out. And that's before he stumbles over the first
corpse.
This week's book is The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler and we'll not be meeting at The Fletcher Moss on William Street in Didsbury but will be meeting online — contact us for details.