Tom Williams

No longer the tough guy

The ageing private eye is called on to investigate the death of a tycoon and the possible involvement of his beautiful young widow

  • Only to Sleep: A Philip Marlowe Thriller

    Lawrence Osborne

    Hogarth, pp. 243

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