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Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe's on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. That's the simple part. It becomes more complicated when Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they end up dead. That's also unlucky for a private investigator, because leaving a trail of corpses around LA puts cops' noses seriously out of joint. If Marlowe doesn't wrap this one up fast, he's going to end up either in jail or in a box in the ground....

Philip Marlowe’s on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband’s collection. That’s the simple part. It becomes more complicated when Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead.

Elizabeth Bright Murdock, una adinerada y áspera viuda, contrata a Marlowe para que encuentre su doblón Brasher, una moneda rara y muy valiosa que ha sido robada. Marlowe deberá resolver un rompecabezas cuyas piezas no parecen tener relación, mientras se suceden los asesinatos relacionados con un asesinato que fue silenciado durante muchos años.