The Little Sister
Saturday, November 28th, 2009 | American Literature
I thought I’d read all of Raymond Chandler’s works, but I found this one and it was good. In Dorothy L Sayer’s stories she talks about her murder mysteries as upholding a vision of justice. Chandler’s detective novels uphold a vision on integrity, a belief in the worth of human beings. In each story, Marlowe begins by believing in someone. That belief is often dashed by the end of the story, but the fact that Marlowe believes - not because the person is rich or educated, just because they’re human - is the powerful thing. Marlowe tries to find someone for “the little sister”; he finds a lot of people, some of them dead. I love Chandler’s stories.
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