• The Little Sister

  • A Philip Marlowe Novel, Book 5
  • By: Raymond Chandler
  • Narrated by: Scott Brick
  • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (152 ratings)

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The Little Sister

By: Raymond Chandler
Narrated by: Scott Brick
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Publisher's summary

Crime-fiction master Raymond Chandler's fifth novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times).

In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Little Sister, a movie starlet with a gangster boyfriend and a pair of siblings with a shared secret lure private eye Philip 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.

©1949 Raymond Chandler (P)2021 Random House Audio

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Perfect performance, perfect story

One of my favorite authors of the genre, brought to life by an excellent performance. This made for a perfect work day, listening to it as it rains outside.

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Complex and satisfying

Although I’ve heard of him my whole life, I’ve just started reading Chandler, and I can’t get enough. He is a brilliant writer, creating complex plots and characters, which are animated with incredible descriptions and dialogue. Brick’s performance is superb. He exposes every nuance of the story with the skill of academy award winning actor. Can’t get enough!

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Good Lord, I love these books

The performance is awesome, the book is awesome and the story is awesome. It’s my daily escape.

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Great stuff

Raymond Chandler does it again with another fine outing giving Philip Marlowe enough headaches to cause a man to drink. Well performed by Scott Brick. Don’t pass it by.

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Classic, you get what you expect.

Looking for a classic hard-boiled noir detective, this delivers. This genre exists because of stories like this. Not sure that I have anything meaningful to add.

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Gritty

Wonderful story, I love all of these books. So much credit to Scott Brick, the VO is amazing and just, perfection for the material.

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Chandler strikes again

Poor Philip Marlow, fumbles, and bumbles his way through another case, being misled by his clients, skirting the cops, it on the chin. But before it’s all over, he figures things out, and oh, what a tangled Web, with good writing all along the way.

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Tedious

After listening to Lady in the Lake and The Big Sleep, this novel was less than stellar. It seemed to be the length that it is just to fill up pages of the book.

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The set of reading this board to me

It just wasn’t very believable there wasn’t much suspense it was pretty man Atown in his voice

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