' Chandler grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph A classic Philip Marlowe adventure by Raymond Chandler author of The Big Sleep & undisputed master of hard-boiled crime Her name is Orfamay Quest & she's come all the way from Manhattan Kansas to find her missing brother Orrin Or leastways that's what she tells PI Philip Marlowe offering him a measly twenty bucks for the privilege But Marlowe's feeling charitable
- though it's not long before he wishes he wasn't so sweet You see Orrin's trail leads Marlowe to luscious movie starlets uppity gangsters suspicious cops & corpses with ice picks jammed in their necks When trouble comes calling sometimes it's best to pretend to be out ' One of the greatest crime writers who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times' Chandler is an original stylist creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess