The Little Sister

The Little Sister

by Val McDermid (Introduction), Raymond Chandler (Author)

Synopsis

Her name is Orfamay Quest and she's come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or least ways 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...

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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 304
Edition: New Ed
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 07 Jul 2005

ISBN 10: 0140108963
ISBN 13: 9780140108965

Author Bio
Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction.