I think this is perhaps the first time I have read this book ‘properly’ if that is an appropriate adverb.
General Sternwood has a deranged daughter who kills her ex-brother-in-law because he wouldn’t sleep with her. Her sister knows and is roped in with some criminal element who wants to use this to blackmail the wealthy father.
To get to this fairly simple ending, the plot is incredibly complex and probably overpopulated with rogues, so every 50 pages or so it seems to have unraveled and Marlowe reports back to his mates in the police.
It is not as funny or as clever as I had anticipated.
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