Even on a bright spring California morning, Philip Marlowe was
partway inclined to think the little sister pathetic. But was it
all an act? Because from the moment Orfamay Quest palpitates edgily
into his office, Marlowe finds himself hooked. The barb drags him
as far as Bay City, and some very painful encounters with movie
stars, gangsters and police. But by then Marlowe would have
willingly followed her to the ends of the earth...
Throughout the 1940s and 1950s Philip Marlowe stalked the tawdry
neon wilderness of southern California. There Raymond Chandler's
creation became the most famous fictional detective since Sherlock
Holmes, often imitated, never bettered. Read the complete Marlowe
novels in Penguin paperback.
