The Goodbye Coast, Ide - C+

           This is an attempt by a pretty good LA-focused author to bring Phillip Marlowe into today's City of Angels. As I have never read Chandler, I have no idea if there's any effort to reflect or recreate whatever his idiosyncratic style was. In this novel, Marlowe accepts two missing persons cases and is thrust into the world of failing Hollywood types and Russian bad guys. The story started off well, but completely dragged to the end. The reviewers seem to like it, so if you're a Marlowe or an Ide fan, I guess it might be worth the effort.