Playback

Brought to you by Penguin.

''I know it sounds corny, but I could drill you and get away with it.''
''Okay,'' I said thickly. ''For fifty bucks a day I don''t get shot. That costs seventy-five.''

Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is mixing business with pleasure - he''s getting paid to follow a lovely mysterious redhead called Eleanor King. And wherever Miss King goes, trouble is sure to follow. But she'...