Word: doubloon
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...Brasher Doubloon (20th Century-Fox) is a rare coin that has been stolen from a dreary Pasadena mansion. Raymond Chandler's famed private detective Philip Marlowe, this time played by George Montgomery,* is hired to recover it. In no time at all, the simple-looking case has branched out like a cuttlefish. The bulldoggish old dowager (Florence Bates) who hired Marlowe unaccountably fires him. He stays on for the sake of her frightened secretary (Nancy Guild), who can't bear to be touched by a man but wants to get over her peculiarity. The detective also tangles with...
Once there were steamboats on the Mississippi. Writers, thinking about those boats, fancy a certain gallantry, lost now, in the passengers who used them; the names of the boats, too, were beautiful and proud-The Anna Linington, Belle Zane, Magnolia, The Doubloon, The Fashion, The Great Republic. And it is true that people on shore could hear music blown over dark waters from the frail and lighted decks; niggers were fiddling there, gamblers in tall hats were playing faro, planters and belles and bankers swept down the river; they are gone. ' But who shall say that another age, because...
Donald Brian, as a tavern-keeper and a little something besides, conceives a publicity coup. He officially denies the presence of hidden treasure about the place. The result is that the tavern is crammed with doubloon-seekers in no time at all. The whole building and grounds surrounding it are torn limb from limb by industrious axes, hammers...