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The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
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Description for The Big Sleep
Hardcover. Philip Marlowe, a private detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s, as he takes on a case involving a paralysed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail and murder. Num Pages: 696 pages. BIC Classification: FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 37. Weight in Grams: 722.
Raymond Chandler’s first three novels, published here in one volume, established his reputation as an unsurpassed master of hard-boiled detective fiction.
The Big Sleep, Chandler’s first novel, introduces Philip Marlowe, a private detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s, as he takes on a case involving a paralysed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail and murder.
In Farewell, My Lovely, Marlowe deals with the gambling circuit, a murder he stumbles upon, and three very beautiful but potentially deadly women.
In The High Window, Marlowe searches the California underworld for a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Condition
New
Number of Pages
696
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857152555
SKU
9781857152555
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Ref
99-1
About Raymond Chandler
Diane Johnson was born in Illinois and educated at the universities of Utah and California. She is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Le Marriage, Persian Nights and The Shadow Knows, two collections of essays, and biographies of Mary Ellen Peacock and Dashiell Hammett. She has also written screenplays and collaborated with Stanley Kubrick on The Shining. She lives ... Read more
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