The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. Private investigator Philip Marlowe, now in his seventy-second year, has been living out his retirement in the terrace bar of La Fonda hotel. Sipping margaritas and playing cards, his silver-tipped cane at the ready. When in saunter two men dressed like undertakers, with a case that has his name written all over it. At last, Marlowe is back where he belongs. His mission is to investigate Donald Zinn, supposedly drowned off his yacht, leaving a much younger and now very rich wife. Marlowe's specialty. But is Zinn actually alive? Are the pair living off the spoils? Set between the border and badlands of Mexico and California, Lawrence Osborne's resurrection of the iconic Marlowe is an unforgettable addition to the Raymond Chandler canon.