Benjamin Black - A black eyed blond

We are in Los Angeles in the early 1950s. Philip Marlowe is lonely and restless as always and doesn’t rush for clients. Then one day a new client arrives: Clare Cavendish, young, dressed in a beautiful and expensive outfit, asks to find her ex-lover, a man named Nico Peterson. The private investigator soon realizes not only that he is unable to resist the black-eyed blonde, but also that he has become entangled in the case of one of Bay City’s richest families.

The pseudonym Benjamin Black covers John Banville, author of the Man Booker Prize-winning book The Sea, who was personally invited by Raymond Chandler’s Legacy to write a new Marlowe novel.