Los Angeles, 1934. In the city of Angeld, even the angels have dirty faces. To survive on these mean streets, a guy has to be tough, and a dame has to be tougher. Lou Harger thought he was a tough guy, thought he could handle himself. He was wrong, dead wrong, and now he's just dead....Murdered...and the the $20,000 that he won on the roulette table is missing. Legendary private eye Philip Marlowe has been investigating, and he's summoned together the principal suspects in his enquiries. One, or more, of the guests at dinner is a killer. It's your task to find out who the guilty party is before it's too late. —description from the publisher