{"id":28041,"date":"2023-05-22T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=28041"},"modified":"2023-05-19T17:24:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T17:24:46","slug":"raymond-chandlers-philip-marlowe-the-little-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2023\/05\/22\/raymond-chandlers-philip-marlowe-the-little-sister\/","title":{"rendered":"Raymond Chandler\u2019s Philip Marlowe: The Little Sister"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAdapted by Michael Lark<\/strong> (A Byron Preiss Book\/Fireside Books)
\nISBN: 978-1-59687-535-7 (TPB)<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re going to adapt classic, evocative crime novels into graphic narrative you really can\u2019t start from better source material than Raymond Chandler. His fifth novel, The Little Sister<\/strong>, was published in 1949, after nearly a decade of hard living and work as a Hollywood screenwriter, and it is a perfect example of his terse yet poetic hard-boiled style.<\/p>\n

All the beloved and iconic imagery is present in Michael (Gotham Central<\/strong>, Legend of Hawkman<\/strong>, Terminal City<\/strong>) Lark\u2019s static snapshot style as prim Orfamay Quest<\/em> hires the laconic Marlowe to track down her missing brother, a spiritual soul who seems to have gone off the rails since hitting the sin city of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Little Orfamay seems wound up pretty tight for such a run-of the-mill case, but the world-weary detective soon starts to take things a little more seriously after the bodies begin to drop and corpses start showing up in the strangest places\u2026<\/p>\n

This taut and twisted compote of mobsters, blackmail and double-dealing is an ideal example of a tale adapted well: underplayed art and direction augmented by controlled pace and a sensitive use of a deliberately limited colour palette.<\/p>\n

A cool look at a period classic, this is a crime-fan\u2019s dream book, and what\u2019s truly criminal is that it\u2019s been allowed to remain out-of-print.
\n\u00a9 1997 Byron Preiss Visual Publications Inc. Text of The Little Sister \u00a9 1949 Raymond Chandler, \u00a9 renewed 1976 Mrs Helga Greene. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adapted by Michael Lark (A Byron Preiss Book\/Fireside Books) ISBN: 978-1-59687-535-7 (TPB) If you\u2019re going to adapt classic, evocative crime novels into graphic narrative you really can\u2019t start from better source material than Raymond Chandler. His fifth novel, The Little Sister, was published in 1949, after nearly a decade of hard living and work as … <\/p>\n

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