The Little Sister

Raymond Chandler and Philip Marlowe , they are an iconic pair you cannot separate or wish to, the master writer and the fictional character more real than some bipeds. The flavor of Los Angeles in the 1940's you could almost taste, and bringing Hollywood into the mixture soaks the atmosphere in tins......more

"She was a small, neat, rather prissy-looking girl with primly smooth brown hair and rimless glasses. She had no make-up, no lipstick and no jewelry. The rimless glasses gave her that librarian's look." But, Marlowe, you surely must know what she would look like without the glasses, wearing her hair......more

Grit your teeth and enjoy the rough, bumpy ride. Marlowe just can't leave well enough alone. He has to turn over every rock to see what nasty and dangerous things are hiding there. He also has to go out of his way to antagonize people. I bet that when he was a kid he was the one to poke hornet nests......more

Written in the late '40s when RC was sick of Hollywood and depressed about his wife's health (she was 17 years older), RC was fretful and feeling more insolent than usual. So he used Movieland as his setting. The titular sister, from the midwest, lands in SoCal looking for her missing brother as, we......more

Quinto libro de la saga Marlowe. Como siempre, Chandler es brillante en el uso del símil: "Su cuello era moreno y elástico y su boca tan roja como un coche de bomberos sin estrenar"; "Me miró como si yo acabara de surgir del fondo del mar con una sirena ahogada debajo del brazo". Y así podría estar h......more