The Little Sister, one of noir master Raymond Chandler's later novels, paints his darkest portrait yet of the underside of the City of Angels. Detective Phillip Marlowe is once again on the case helping a "Little sisters," a sweet young girl from Kansas, find her missing brother in Tinseltown. A blackmailer and an ambitious starlet play key roles in this bleak tale, Chandler's savage indictment of the Hollywood dream factory.

Raymond Chandler began his writing career at age 45. His muscular, fast-paced style set the standard for American hardboiled mysteries. He distilled the essence of life in Southern California in the 1940s and 1950s in such novels as Farewell, My Lovely, Trouble is My Business, The Long Goodbye, The High Window, The Big Sleep, The Lady in the Lake, Red Wind and Playback (all available from New Millennium Audio).