THE LITTLE SISTER

by Raymond Chandler

Copyright 1949 by Raymond Chandler.

SBN 345-02397-8-095

All rights reserved.

This edition published by arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company.

First U.S. Printing: October, 1971

Cover art by Tom Adams.

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