eBooks - Mystery - Detective Stories - Lin Carter - Raymond Chandler - The Little Sister
The Little Sister eBook
By: Lin Carter, Raymond Chandler
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The Little Sister Summary
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A movie starlet with a gangster boyfriend -- and a pair of siblings with a shared secret -- lure Marlowe into the less than glamorous and more than a little dangerous world of Hollywood fame. This was Chandler's first foray into the industry that dominates the company town that is Los Angeles. "Raymond Chandler is a master." THE NEW YORK TIMES "[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered." "Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious." "Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye." "Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner.... An original.... A great artist." "Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century.... Age does not wither Chandler's prose.... He wrote like an angel." "[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision." "Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence." "Raymond Chandler inve |
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eBooks - Titles - Authors - Mystery - Detective Stories - Lin Carter - Raymond Chandler - The Little Sister