The Little Sister: Philip Marlowe, cartea 5

Toby Stephens stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization of Raymond Chandler s fifth Philip Marlowe mystery

Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the 40s and 50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amid the corruption he encounters daily.

In "Little Sister, " Orfamay Quest small, neat, and prissy-looking has come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother, Orrin. Or leastways that s what she tells Philip Marlowe, offering him a measly twenty bucks for the privilege.

Marlowe s feeling charitable and that s mistake number one. Orrin s trail leads to luscious movie starlets, uppity gangsters, suspicious cops, and corpses with ice picks jammed in their necks. When trouble comes calling, sometimes it s best to pretend to be out

Starring Toby Stephens, this evocative adaptation by Stephen Wyatt retains all the darkness and high drama of Chandler s intense, enthralling noir novel."