A Man Named Marlowe

Los Angeles, 1935.
It’s the heart of the great depression, with glitz and glamour right next door to misery and suffering. It’s the kind of world where those with money don’t want to share it and those without it have no idea how to get it. It’s the kind of world where Philip Marlowe will take a case he’ll regret, but will he get to live with them?

Author Raymond Chandler set his first Marlowe novel, The Big Sleep, in (then) present-day 1936, but who was Marlowe before The Big Sleep? In A Man Named Marlowe, we’ll find out.

It’s a story with an empowered woman, back room deals, gruesome murders, hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold, and two long-dead gunmen who teach us that heroes can live forever.