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General Sternwood has four million dollars, and two young daughters, both pretty and both wild. He's an old, sick man, close to death, but he doesn't like being blackmailed. So he asks private detective Philip Marlowe to get the blackmailer off his back. Marlowe knows the dark side of life in Los Angeles well, and nothing much surprises him. But the Sternwood girls are a lot wilder than their old father realizes. They like men, drink, drugs - and it's not just a question of blackmail.
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The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
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- 2000
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- Title
- The Big Sleep
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Raymond Chandler
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Released
- 2000
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0194230279
- ISBN13
- 9780194230278
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Mystery & Thriller, Mystery Novels, Thriller, Classics, USA, Murders, American Literature, Detective Fiction, Detective, Adapted for Film, Drugs, Kidnappings, Intrigues, Noir, Mafia, Jealousy, Frauds, California, Private Detective, Blackmail, Los Angeles, Gambling, Pornography, Smuggling, Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction
- First published
- 1939
- Original title
- The Big Sleep
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- General Sternwood has four million dollars, and two young daughters, both pretty and both wild. He's an old, sick man, close to death, but he doesn't like being blackmailed. So he asks private detective Philip Marlowe to get the blackmailer off his back. Marlowe knows the dark side of life in Los Angeles well, and nothing much surprises him. But the Sternwood girls are a lot wilder than their old father realizes. They like men, drink, drugs - and it's not just a question of blackmail.