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Los Angeles 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. But 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 . . .
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The big sleep, Raymond Chandler, Ian Rankin
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- Released
- 2009
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- Title
- The big sleep
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Raymond Chandler, Ian Rankin
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 2009
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN10
- 0241956285
- ISBN13
- 9780241956281
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Thriller, Classics, USA, Murders, American Literature, Detective Fiction, Detective, Adapted for Film, Drugs, Kidnappings, Intrigues, Noir, Jealousy, Frauds, Mafia, California, Blackmail, Private Detective, Los Angeles, Gambling, Pornography, Smuggling, Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction
- First published
- 1939
- Original title
- The Big Sleep
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- Los Angeles 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. But 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 . . .