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Title	:	The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe #5)
Author	:	Raymond Chandler
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 250 pages
Published	:	August 12th 1988 by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard (first published 1949)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Noir. Detective. Classics. Hard Boiled

The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe #5) Paperback | Pages: 250 pages

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Raymond Chandler and Philip Marlowe , they are an iconic pair you cannot separate or wish to, the master writer and the fictional character more real than some bipeds. The flavor of Los Angeles in the 1940's you could almost taste, and bringing Hollywood into the mixture soaks the atmosphere in tinsel, cheap it may be yet L.A. wouldn't be the same without the glamour and the vulgar. Add a murder mystery and Chandler who knew the business that built the city, he worked in the studio system ( as a screenwriter) and disliked greatly. A young apparently innocent looking girl from Manhattan, Kansas Orfamay Quest has a job for Mr. Marlowe find her missing older brother Orrin involved in an illicit trade. Miss Quest is not what she appears to be, pretending runs in the family and she is the best one of them. Philip doesn't locate big brother in his seedy apartment but discovers dead bodies everywhere he looks and the Los Angeles police are not happy far from it, Lieutenant Christy French and partner Fred Beifus, they give the detective a rough reception at their downtown headquarters, ( the Bay City boys also hate him and participate in the festivities ) Orrin works for a criminal doctor Lagardie after losing his legitimate work in Bay City ( Santa Monica). The Hollywood actress and rising movie star Mavis Weld is the sister of both Orrin and Orfamay a very good friend of a gangster Steegrave trying to go strait but having difficulties, she is being blackmailed. Her studio has high hopes for her and will do anything to shield their investment. She is ambitious, has become corrupt in the system like many others and shows contempt for Marlowe which the gumshoe doesn't mind he likes the view . Minor star Dolores Gonzales also is in the plot and likes Mr. Marlowe a lot, she wants to protect Marvis, still the sleaze permeates all, the artificial climate takes a toll. Chandler gives this novel another jolt of entertainment, with a hard-boiled detective as only he could create, the words flow cynically, the killings abound yet this is his world which the writer knew intimately, drugs, prostitution, failures of the discarded actors that the film industry wishes to hide , however he lived in the muck and we benefit from his experiences.The fans will enjoy this and mystery aficionados too, there was only one Raymond Chandler and the public is grateful...

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Original Title:	The Little Sister
ISBN:	039475767X (ISBN13: 9780394757674)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Philip Marlowe #5
Characters:	Lee Farrell, Philip Marlowe, Orfamay Quest, Dr. Vincent Lagardie, Dolores Gonzales, Kenny Haste, Mavis Weld, Lester B. Clausen, G. W. Hambleton, Christy French, Joseph P. Toad, Sherry Ballou, Moss Spink, Helen Grady, Jules Oppenheimer, Orrin Quest, Detective-Lieutenant Fred Beifus, Lieutenant Moses Maglashan, Steelgrave, Sewell Endicott
Setting:	Los Angeles, California(United States) California(United States)

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The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe, #5), Raymond ChandlerThe Little Sister is a 1949 novel by Raymond Chandler, his fifth featuring the private investigator Philip Marlowe. The story is set in Los Angeles in the late 1940's. The novel centers on the younger sister of a Hollywood starlet and has several scenes involving the film industry. It was partly inspired by Chandler's experience working as a screenwriter in Hollywood and his low opinion of the industry and most of the people in it. The book

Raymond Chandler and Philip Marlowe , they are an iconic pair you cannot separate or wish to, the master writer and the fictional character more real than some bipeds. The flavor of Los Angeles in the 1940's you could almost taste, and bringing Hollywood into the mixture soaks the atmosphere in tinsel, cheap it may be yet L.A. wouldn't be the same without the glamour and the vulgar. Add a murder mystery and Chandler who knew the business that built the city, he worked in the studio system ( as a

Yet another fantastic Raymond Chandler book!! This time Marlow goes into Hollywood and we get his take on the the movie business in the late 1940's. His prose is top notch and one of a kind. I marvel at the consistency of the writing and constantly colorful analogies and metaphors. One of my all time favorite writers.The Little Sister deals with a young woman who is trying to find her brother and of course Marlow is hired to do the job. He works his way through a labyrinth of high life sleaze

Wonderful what Hollywood will do to a nobody. It will make a radiant glamour queen out of a drab little wench who ought to be ironing a truck drivers shirts, a he-man hero with shining eyes and brilliant smile reeking of sexual charm out of some overgrown kid who was meant to go to work with a lunchbox. Out of a Texas car hop with the literacy of a character in a comic strip it will make an international courtesan, married six times to six millionaires and so blasé and decadent at the end of it



This one had my head spinning. I have read some of Chandler's short stories before, but I believe this was the first novel I'd read from him. The plot was a little too complex and convoluted for me, as by the time it was over I was just glad to be done. It started out interesting enough, and of course it's very well written hard-boiled fiction. I just lost track of the many characters and their motivations. Phillip Marlowe is the quintessential private eye, and a great character. Really, all of

Book 226 - Mid-20th Century North American Crime Readathon - Round 10Chandler isn't famous for plot and resolution. But here, the plot is linear, makes sense, has great clues and red herrings, has a good series of investigations, and has an ambiguous ending: you just can't keep the girl in Kansas after she's been chasing her own Oscar in Hollywood. I've now read all 7 of Chandler's novels, PLUS I've read "The Annotated Big Sleep" and that book added so much to my understanding of Chandler, a