The Little Sister (Philip Marlowe)
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (833 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1483016463 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 370 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Whistlers Mom said The noirest of the noir. Chandler never wrote frothy stuff, but this one is grim. "You're not human tonight, Marlowe" our hero tells himself as he deals with an unpleasant client, an unappealing victim, and (God help him) the Bay City Police Department. Chandler fans will remember the BCPD from FAREWELL, MY LOVELY. At the end of that book, Bay City is purged. A new mayor and police chief are installed and honest cops are rehired. It didn't last, of course. The culture of corruption runs deep in places like Bay City and it takes more than cosmetic changes to make a difference.Phillip Marlowe is the natural heir to t. "A Good Book - Just Not as Good as the Rest in the Series" according to RJ Stokely. The Little Sister is the fifth entry in Chandler's Philip Marlowe series. This is a good read and recommended for fans of the genre, I will warn you that it is no Farewell, My Lovely or The Big Sleep. There is an overall tone of loneliness in The Little Sister as Marlowe crosses paths with gangsters, blackmailers, hop heads, and starlets all for an eccentric young girl looking for her brother. The dialogue and stream of consciousness style are well done and as usual very witty. Chandler also delivers a scathing critique on the film industry which is not to be missed. Yet, there is something. Good read for fans, but no one else I was able to read this one through just because of who the author was. Mickey Spillane is much more readable. Chandler spends a hundred paragraphs describing flowers, stuff like that.
Orrin s trail leads to luscious movie starlets, uppity gangsters, suspicious cops, and corpses with ice picks jammed in their necks. Toby Stephens stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization of Raymond Chandler s fifth Philip Marlowe mysteryFast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. Or leastways that s what she tells Philip Marlowe, offering him a measly twenty bucks for the privilege.Marlowe s feeling charitable and that s mistake number one. California in the 40s and 50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amid the corruption he encounters daily.In "Little Sister, " Orfamay Quest small, neat, and prissy-looking has come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother
When Orfamay Quest hires Marlowe to find her missing brother, the case at first seems pretty straightforward, but--beset by mobsters, blackmailers, and murder--Marlowe soon discovers that a missing person is the least of his troubles. Remember those great film adaptations of Raymond Chandler's work? Who could forget Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep or Dick Powell playing the same character in Farewell, My Lovely? In Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe: The Little Sister, illustrator Michael Lark has given us a brand-new incarnation of Chandler's famous fictional detective, a "comic book" version of Chandler's 1949 mystery. The Little Sister was not one of Raymond Chandler's best efforts, but Michael Lark has effectively tailored the text to clarify the original story, emphasizing through his "comic noir" artwork the dark, dangerous environs, both physical and psychological, in which Philip Marlo