
The Little Sister (1949) is Chandler's fifth Marlowe novel and his most savage portrait of Hollywood. When timid Orfamay Quest arrives from Manhattan, Kansas, looking for her missing brother, Marlowe is pulled into a case involving movie stars, gangsters, and a string of ice-pick killings. Chandler's bitterest and funniest novel is also a scathing indictment of the film industry and the city that feeds it.