Gorgeously written, but the plot was convoluted and not very engaging. At no point did I feel like I was given a real reason why I should want to read about any of these characters (the men - the women barely deserve to be called characters tbh) and at the fifty percent mark, the case was suddenly sort of over? And from there on, we follow another crime that Marlowe is seemingly uninterested in and that LITERALLY NO ONE has asked him to investigate…