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Physical description; 221 p. ; 20 cm. Series; Penguin Books. no. 851. Notes; First published by Hamish Hamilton, 1943; published in Penguin Books, 1951. 1967 reprint. Summary; Philip Marlowe's on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. That's the simple part. It becomes more complicated when Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead. That's also unlucky for a private investigator, because leaving a trail of corpses around LA gets cops' noses out of joint. If Marlowe doesn't wrap this one up fast, he's going to end up in jail or worse, in a box in the ground. Review: Tight, bright tale which brings back Philip Marlowe, private detective, who is hired to find a missing coin. California the setting for a complex chain which leads back to a former suicide (murder), and develops three new killings, blackmail, and counterfeit. Hammett derivative, tough, tense, and fine fare. (Kirkus Reviews) Subjects; Marlowe, Philip (Fictitious character) - Fiction. Private investigators - California - Los Angeles - Fiction. American fiction - Quaker authors. Fiction in English. English fiction. Fiction in English, 1900 - Texts. Crime & mystery. FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled. FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical. Murder Fiction. Genre; Detective and mystery stories. Fiction. Mystery fiction.