The Little Sister.

RAYMOND CHANDLER

Publication: Houghton Mifflin Company,1949, Boston

First U. S. edition. First issue binding in deep orange cloth (later yellow), with titles and decorations stamped in dark blue on spine and front cover. Fine, bright copy in a bright dust jacket designed by Boris Artzybasheff, with some minor professional restoration at the edges. An exceptional copy with the sensitive spine colors bright and completely unfaded. A young woman, beautiful and in trouble, asks private eye Marlowe for help. She needs to find her brother, a small-town boy who's lost his way in the big city. She's not quite what she claims to be, and the brother isn't what he should have been. As the story progresses, Hollywood and all the people in it lose their shine and get darker and dirtier. And then the bodies begin to pile up .... The author's fifth novel featuring detective Philip Marlowe. Basis for Paul Bogart's 1969 film Marlowe, starring James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, and Carroll O'Connor, with a brief role by Bruce Lee.

Inventory Number: 49077