The Little Sister
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. Chandler's first foray into the industry that dominates the company town that is Los Angeles.
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. Chandler's first foray into the industry that dominates the company town that is Los Angeles.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780394757674 (039475767X)
ASIN: 039475767X
Publish date: 1988-08-12
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 250
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
American,
Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Noir,
Hard Boiled,
Fiction
Everybody knows Phillip Marlowe's voice, even those of us who have never knowingly cracked the covers of a Chandler thriller. But it's nice to get the full effect first-hand, and I enjoyed this trip through the dour world of studio-era Hollywood through the eyes of a disenchanted and cynical observe...
This book did have the delicious self-deprecating humor that is the main reason why I read these books. Still, I wasn't able to enjoy it...I guess the formula is just getting old for me. The characters are so cliché that I will start looking for them as soon as I begin reading the book. "Oh, so this...
bookshelves: summer-2010, published-1949, play-dramatisation, noir, mystery-thriller Read from July 05 to 06, 2010 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 f...
Et là-dessus, je raccrochai. C'était la bonne méthode. Mais cela se révéla insuffisant. J'aurai dû fermer la porte à double tour et me cacher sous le bureau.
A strong book, bitter and sad and angry, but held up to the light of 'Farewell, My Loveley' and 'The Lady in the Lake', I had to make some deductions. Orfamy Quest is missing her brother, a couple of movie stars have damning image problems coming in the mail, smooth gangsters run free, and rich corr...
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