

'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times 'Chandler grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph 'Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye' Los Angeles Times The Little Sister is Raymond Chandler's fifth novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe. Soon the trail leads to a succession of Hollywood starlets, uppity gangsters, suspicious cops and corpses with ice picks jammed into their necks. Feeling charitable, Marlowe accepts - though it's not long before he wishes he hadn't.


Or at least that's what she tells Marlowe, offering him just twenty dollars for his trouble. She's come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Private Investigator Philip Marlowe's latest client is Orfamay Quest.
