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Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep is the definitive hardboiled detective story and Philip Marlowe the perfect expression of the cynical, world-weary gumshoe. Hired by the crippled General Sternwood to shake off a blackmailer, Marlowe also has to deal with the general's two rebellious daughters, the gamblers and pornographers they run with and, soon enough, some inconvenient murders. Chandler's LA and the gutter-life that populate it made crime fiction what it is today and remain unmatched.
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The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
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- Title
- The Big Sleep
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Raymond Chandler
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 2008
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 264
- ISBN10
- 0141037598
- ISBN13
- 9780141037592
- 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
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- Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep is the definitive hardboiled detective story and Philip Marlowe the perfect expression of the cynical, world-weary gumshoe. Hired by the crippled General Sternwood to shake off a blackmailer, Marlowe also has to deal with the general's two rebellious daughters, the gamblers and pornographers they run with and, soon enough, some inconvenient murders. Chandler's LA and the gutter-life that populate it made crime fiction what it is today and remain unmatched.