This graphic novel was published in 1990 by Harper & Row
Perennial Library.
The author is Martin Rowson who evidently did both the art
work and the
text. The detective, Chris Marlowe, is a combination of
Chandler and
Hammett-style detectives. The world he inhabits is filled
with characters
from literature and film, tarot card symbols, foreign
languages and poetic
verse. I think well educated academic types might understand
it all, but I
would be lying to say that I did. The storyline is that
Marlowe must search
for a cup after his partner Miles Fisher is murdered.
Recommended for the
curious.
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