This was a good mystery novel. It is set in the 1930s and there is A LOT of jargon that must have been common to the period, but it was way too much for me. As far as the story goes, it is about a private detective Philip Marlowe who gets asked by a dyiing billionare to help him with a blackmailer of one of his two crazy daughters. Marlowe slowly gets caught up in more than he bargained for when bodies start dropping around him. The twist at the end was good and unforseen, but for the most part, there seemed to be too many characters to keep strait especially when they were all talking weird lingo that I didn't understand.