Going for Coffee with Philip Marlowe

In Raymond Chandler's 1949 novel "The Little Sister," private eye Philip Marlowe puts down a quarter for a pack of Camels and gets seven cents change.

Later he finds a nickel in a pay telephone slot and uses it to get a cup of coffee.

Of course, he was making only forty dollars a day--on days when he had a job.

Even so, we're ready to go for coffee with Marlowe--if he still knows that place where it's five cents a cup.