'Maybe it was time I forgot about Nico Peterson, and his sister, and the Cahuilla Club, and Clare Cavendish. Clare? The rest would be out of my mind, but not the black-eyed blonde . ' In 1950s L.A., business is slow, and Private Detective Philip Marlowe is restless and lonely as ever. Then a new client arrives. Young, beautiful and expensively dressed, Clare Cavendish wants Marlowe to find her former lover. Caught under the spell of this black-eyed blonde, Marlowe also finds himself tangling with one of L.

A.'s richest families. It's not long before he finds out just how far they will go to protect their fortune.