02151cam a2200349 i 4500 950211244 TxAuBib 20230919120000.0 230711s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2023023550 9780316265645 HRD 28.00 0316265640 HRD 28.00 TxAuBib rda Mina, Denise, author Second murderer. The second murderer [BOOK] : a Philip Marlowe mystery / Denise Mina. First North American edition. New York : Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2023. 245 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier It’s early fall when a heatwave descends on Los Angeles. Private Detective Philip Marlowe is called to the Montgomery estate, an almost mythic place sitting high on top of Beverly Hills. Wealthy socialite Chrissie Montgomery is missing. Young, naïve, and set to inherit an enormous fortune, she’s a walking target, ripe for someone to get their claws into. Her dying father and his sultry bottle-blonde girlfriend want her found before that happens. To make sure, they’ve got Anne Riordan—now head of her own all-female detective agency—on the case, too. The search for Chrissie takes the two investigators from the Montgomery mansion to the roughest neighborhoods of LA, through dive bars and boarding houses and out to Skid Row. And that’s all before they find the body at The Brody Hotel. Who will get to Chrissie first? And what happens when a woman doesn’t want to be found? Provided by publisher. 20230919. Marlowe, Philip (Fictitious character) Fiction. Private investigators California Los Angeles Fiction. Missing persons Investigation Fiction. Rich people Fiction. Nineteen thirties Fiction. Los Angeles (Calif) Fiction. Historical fiction. Mystery fiction.