Author: CHANDLER, RAYMOND (1888-1959)
Title: The little sister / Raymond Chandler
Description: Harmondsworth : Penguin Books in association with Hamish Hamilton 1955. First Edition. Very good paperback copy. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. Physical description; 246 p. ; 20 cm. Notes; Orig. publ. by Hamish Hamilton. 1949. Summary; 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. Subjects; Fiction in English. Mystery and detective stories. English fiction. Marlowe. Philip (Fictitious character) — Fiction. Fiction in English. 1900 — Texts. Crime & mystery. FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General. Genre; Detective and mystery stories. Fiction. Mystery fiction. ISBN: 0140108963. Weight in Kg appr.:

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