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Completed	31 August 2009
Title	The Little Sister
Author	Raymond Chandler
Published	1949
Quote	"We went down three carpeted steps into an office that had everything in it but a swimming pool. It was two stories high, surrounded by a balcony loaded with bookshelves. There was a concert grand Steinway in the corner and a lot of glass and bleached wood furniture and a desk about the size of a badminton court and chairs and couches and tables and a man lying on one of the couches with his coat off and his shirt open over a charvet scarf you could have found in the dark by listening to its purr. A white cloth was over his eyes and forehead, and a lissome blonde girl was wringing out another in a silver bowl of ice water at a table beside him."
Review	I loved the descriptions of 1940s dress and lifestyle. That was the best part of this book. The long, drawn-out mystery part, though, was a bit much for me. I guess I just don't have the patience for whodunnits, unless it's the easy-on-the-ivories type of writing a la Dan Brown. This book had, like most mysteries, a sudden twist at the end, which made it, finally, an interesting read. But getting to the final fix was like running a race in slow motion. Arduous.

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