Cynical Philip Marlowe - L.A.'s toughest private detective - has seen it all. But when a sweet young thing hires him to find her missing brother, Marlowe stirs up Hollywood's muck, finding blackmail, drugs, and murder. Raymond Chandler created the muscular, fast-paced style that has become the hallmark of American mystery at its best. In The Little Sister, tension crackles under Chandler's cool wit, taut language, and unexpected plot twists. Read by Elliott Gould, who played Philip Marlowe in the movie version of Chandler's The Long Goodbye, this noir novel is a classic, starring the hardest-boiled detective of them all.