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The Big Sleep

By Raymond Chandler
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The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler is the definitive hardboiled detective novel, featuring Philip Marlowe, the cynical and world-weary private investigator. Marlowe is hired by the ailing General Sternwood to deal with a blackmailer but soon finds himself entangled with the general's rebellious daughters, shady gamblers, and the lurid underworld of Los Angeles, all culminating in a series of complex murders.
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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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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780141037592

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 September 2008

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

Contributors:

  • Introduction by Ian Rankin

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 111.0mm

Height: 181.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 272

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Crime & Thriller Fiction General Fiction Penguin Books Raymond Chandler

About the Author

'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards that others still try to attain.' Sunday Times Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and moved to England with his family when he was twelve. He attended Dulwich College, Alma Mater to some of the twentieth century’s most renowned writers. Returning to America in 1912, he settled in California, worked in a number of jobs, and later married. It was during the Depression era that he seriously turned his hand to writing and his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six years later by his first novel. The Big Sleep introduced the world to Philip Marlowe, the often imitated but never-bettered hard-boiled private investigator.

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