The Kept Girl

"Commendable." – Kirkus Reviews. The acclaimed debut from crime historian Kim Cooper features a young Raymond Chandler, his devoted secretary and the real cop who is a likely model for Philip Marlowe, on the trail of a cult of murderous angel worshippers in 1929 L.A.. From taxi dancehalls to sinister sanitariums, the novel evokes a glittering metropolis on the crest of an epic crash, and exposes a mystery so horrifying, it could only be true. Original.