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The Little Sister

`So you need help. What`s your name and trouble?`Private Investigator Philip Marlowe`s latest client is Orfamay Quest. She`s come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or at least that`s what she tells Marlowe, offering him just twenty dollars for his trouble. Feeling charitable, Marlowe accepts – though it`s not long before he wishes he hadn`t. Soon the trail leads to a succession of Hollywood starlets, uppity gangsters, suspicious cops and corpses with ice picks jammed into their necks . . .The Little Sister is Raymond Chandler`s fifth novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe.`Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye` Los Angeles Times`Chandler grips the mind from the first sentence` Daily Telegraph `One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain` Sunday Times`Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes` Anthony Burgess