The Little Sister

You see, Orrin's trail leads Marlowe to luscious movie starlets, uppity gangsters, suspicious cops and corpses with ice picks jammed in their necks. Or least ways that's what she tells PI Philip Marlowe, offering him a measly twenty bucks for the privilege. When trouble comes calling, sometimes it's best to pretend to be out.. Her name is Orfamay Quest and she's come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. But Marlowe's feeling charitable though it's not long before he wishes he wasn't so sweet

When Orfamay Quest hires Marlowe to find her missing brother, the case at first seems pretty straightforward, but--beset by mobsters, blackmailers, and murder--Marlowe soon discovers that a missing person is the least of his troubles. The Little Sister was not one of Raymond Chandler's best efforts, but Michael Lark has effectively tailored the text to clarify the original story, emphasizing through his "comic noir" artwork the dark, dangerous environs, both physical and psychological, in which Philip Marlowe still moves. . Remember those great film adaptations of Raymond Chandler's work? Who could forget Humphrey Bogart as Ph

The noirest of the noir Chandler never wrote frothy stuff, but this one is grim. "You're not human tonight, Marlowe" our hero tells himself as he deals with an unpleasant client, an unappealing victim, and (God help him) the Bay City Police Department. Chandler fans will remember the BCPD from FAREWELL, MY LOVELY. At the end of that book, Bay City is purged. A new mayor and police chief are installed and honest cops are rehired. It didn't last, of course. The culture of corruption runs deep in places like Ba. A Good Book - Just Not as Good as the Rest in the Series The Little Sister is the fifth entry in Chandler's Philip Marlowe series. This is a good read and recommended for fans of the genre, I will warn you that it is no Farewell, My Lovely or The Big Sleep. There is an overall tone of loneliness in The Little Sister as Marlowe crosses paths with gangsters, blackmailers, hop heads, and starlets all for an eccentric young girl looking for her brother. The dialogue and stream of consciousness style are well done and as usual very witty. Chandl. Good read for fans, but no one else I was able to read this one through just because of who the author was. Mickey Spillane is much more readable. Chandler spends a hundred paragraphs describing flowers, stuff like that.