Only To Sleep, Osborne - B

                                                This is a delightful diversion set in 1988 and featuring a retired 72 year-old Phillip Marlowe. Pacific Mutual calls the Baja resident out of retirement to check on the veracity of a life insurance claim. He traipses all over Mexico, drinks too much, bemoans old age, oozes cynicism and concludes that there has been fraud and multiple murders committed.