The Little Sister
Author: Chandler, Raymond
ISBN: 9780241954324
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 28 Oct 2010
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback / softback
July 2005 sees a major relaunch of Chandler's Philip Marlowe series to tie in with Harrogate Crime Festival.
Her name is Orfamay Quest and she's come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or leastways that's what she tells PI Philip Marlowe, offering him a measly twenty bucks for the privilege. But Marlowe's feeling charitable - though it's not long before he wishes he wasn't so sweet. You see, Orrin's trail leads Marlowe to luscious movie starlets, uppity gangsters, suspicious cops and corpses with ice picks jammed in their necks. When trouble comes calling, sometimes it's best to pretend to be out...
ISBN: 9780241954324
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 28 Oct 2010
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback / softback
July 2005 sees a major relaunch of Chandler's Philip Marlowe series to tie in with Harrogate Crime Festival.
Her name is Orfamay Quest and she's come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or leastways that's what she tells PI Philip Marlowe, offering him a measly twenty bucks for the privilege. But Marlowe's feeling charitable - though it's not long before he wishes he wasn't so sweet. You see, Orrin's trail leads Marlowe to luscious movie starlets, uppity gangsters, suspicious cops and corpses with ice picks jammed in their necks. When trouble comes calling, sometimes it's best to pretend to be out...
