Summary
Orfamay Quest of Manhattan, Kansas, is a "small, neat, rather prissy-looking girl with primly smooth brown hair and rimless glasses." She approaches the detective Marlowe to help her find her missing brother, but she can only afford to pay him $20. What Orfamay Quest doesn't tell Marlowe is that her half-sister is a movie starlet with mob connections. This is the first Chandler novel concerned with the movie industry, a business he knew all too well. He is primarily interested in how the Hollywood mentality can affect people, even small-town folk from Kansas.
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"It's the only book of mind I have actively disliked. It was written in a bad mood and I think that comes through." -- Raymond Chandler
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Chivers North Amer
Published date: 1993
Size: 6.25 x 9.25 inches
Weight: 0.95 pounds
Pages: 292
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