This is a 'Film Noir' with an atmospheric musical background created by myself . There is just enough dialog here to give you a flavour of the story. The full story concerns a 'crime of passion' set in the late 1940s in California. Philip Marlowe investigates and is, as usual caught in compromising situations ... always at the murder scene, just when 'the Cops' arrive. A great read. Poodle Springs is one of my favourite detective story books. It was the very last Philip Marlowe story that Raymond Chandler wrote. In fact, he didn't actually finish writing it before he died in 1959. Writer Robert B Parker completed it. It's impossible to see 'the join' where Robert B Parker took over the story from Chandlers manuscripts.