Title: Dreaming of Babylon
First published: 1977
Description: It is early 1942. You are in San Francisco, and you need a private eye. Sam Spade is rumored to be in Istanbul. Philip Marlowe is up at Little Fawn Lake investigating the disappearance of Mrs. Derace Kingsley. Lew Archer is in the army. Who's left? Nobody but C. Card. You haven't heard of C. Card? That's all right. Nobody has. When you hire C. Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye barrel. But you won't be bored.
Subjects: Private investigators, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories
LC classification: PZ4.B826 Dr, PS3503.R2736 Dr