Only To Sleep: A Philip Marlowe Novel

"The story is simple the way all gumshoe novels ought to be: Rich white guy dies, leaves his wife millions in an insurance policy, Philip Marlowe is called to investigate and does. But like all great gumshoe novels, there are cavernous depths here that only look shallow from the surface. Lawrence Osborne does a remarkable impersonation of Raymond Chandler’s voice here but an even better job getting inside the character of Marlowe, making him the dogged, everyman, knight-errant that Chandler always thought he was and writing some of the most beautiful, sad and lonely sentences of the year in the process."