The Little Sister

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The Little Sister is a novel by Raymond Chandler, starring his famous fictional detective Philip Marlowe. The story is set around 1950s California.

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This is Raymond Chandler's chess game. All the right people get killed, all in due time. Even the cops turn out to be the good guys they should be, "everybody hates the cops - it shouldn't be like that - so let the healing start here". This is Raymond Chandler's masterpiece - a good guy protagonist - nothing like him since the Brothers Karamazov. Did the little sister go back to Kansas? Or, did Kansas come to Hollywood and put a knife in her heart?

Marlowe takes up the investigation and gets tangled up with Hollywood starlets, gangsters and the police. There are several murders along the way, and the emphasis gradually shifts from finding the missing brother to looking for the killer behind the murders.

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	The works of Raymond Chandler
Novels:	The Big Sleep \| Farewell, My Lovely \| The High Window \| The Lady in the Lake \| The Little Sister \| The Long Goodbye \| Playback \| Poodle Springs
Short story collections:	Fingerman and Other Stories \| The Simple Art of Murder \| Killer in the Rain
Other collections:	Raymond Chandler Speaking \| Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler \| Chandler Before Marlowe
Screenplays:	Double Indemnity \| And Now Tomorrow \| The Unseen \| The Blue Dahlia \| Strangers on a Train \| Playback