'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 . ...
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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 Discover the newest addition to the inimitable Philip Marlowe series - Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne - out 6 September 2018 in hardback and ebook from Hogarth.
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New. Her name is Orfamay Quest and she's come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or leastways 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. Series: Phillip Marlowe. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 220. 2010. paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
I can't believe I missed this CRITCAL gap when I read this book the first time--what was Chandler thinking, who's usually so competent. rereading it, I noticed in first chapter, Orfamay does NOT name Leila, but later on Marlowe mentions her, who is key to whole story. How did you get her name, if Orfamay didn't say it? Serious lapse for author I love . nonetheless, do read the book. sorry if I'm spoiler.