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The Little Sister
Phillip Marlowe (Related to this series)
- Author
- Raymond Chandler
- Narrator
- Scott Brick
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 15 April 2021
- Run Time
- 8 hours 25 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Classic fiction: literary and general
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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'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
© Raymond Chandler 1989 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
User Reviews
Book 5.0
Narration 5.0
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What more can you say about the great Raymond Chandler? Great sums up the brilliance of the man's writing. His creation, Philip Marlowe, is a hardened gumshoe with a heart of corn hidden under a bravado which is equal parts cynicism and cutting laugh-out-loud sarcasm. Chandler's analogising is its own art form. The Little Sister is a brilliantly twisted story, a la Chandler, brilliantly read by Scott Brick who captures every single character with the precision of a surgeon's scalpel.
Thomas Reilly 2025-11-01
Details
- Author
- Raymond Chandler
- Narrator
- Scott Brick
- Duration
- 8 hours 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 15 April 2021
- ISBN
- 9780241989395
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Classic fiction: literary and general
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.'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© Raymond Chandler 1989 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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