I learned that this book was an amalgam of Chandler's short stories and he done so by combining them into one big plot and change some character's names. No wonder the book was confusing as hell. Definitely not my type of book because I just feel no sympathy or curiosity towards what's going on, which is sad because that's how I often feel when reading detective novels. This novel is just about a mess created by 2 daughters of a rich man, and a private detective who tried to solve the mess. As the story goes on, however, I don't really care that much about any character. There were like 4 murders happening within a few chapters and 1 murder was never solved (since the author copy and paste his short stories and forgot to tie up loose end). The only good thing was the surprising ending but meh. I do not like this. Seem to not have that much psychological depth but just dreadfully boring.