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The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
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Description for The Big Sleep
Paperback. PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. Series: Phillip Marlowe. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 195 x 19. Weight in Grams: 196.
'I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.'
Los Angeles Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is blackmailing him. A broken, weary old man, Sternwood just wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. However, with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out. And that's before he stumbles over the first corpse.
The Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler's first novel ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Phillip Marlowe
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241956281
SKU
9780241956281
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About Raymond Chandler
Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction.
Reviews for The Big Sleep
Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious
Robert B. Parker
The New York Times Book Review
Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since
Paul Auster Raymond Chandler is a star of the ... Read more
Robert B. Parker
The New York Times Book Review
Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since
Paul Auster Raymond Chandler is a star of the ... Read more