Frank Tallis: Mephisto Waltz [2019] paperback WCLAS Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe

Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is indulging in some petty blackmail

the smugglers or people who had simply been going about their daily business over the word of the city's elite task force

It is a new approach to nature through one of its most powerful forms - those fragrant 'essential oils' drawn from flowers and grasses

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Frank Tallis: Mephisto Waltz [2019] paperback WCLAS Los Angeles PI Philip MarloweVienna, 1904. The body of a man still sitting in a chair is discovered in an abandoned piano factory on the outskirts of the city. He has been shot dead but his face has been horribly disfigured with acid, making identification impossible. In front of the body are three chairs positioned conspicuously in a straight line. Who were the former occupants? Had they sat in judgement and pronounced a sentence of death? Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt