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The Big Sleep
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This classic crime thriller is perfect for fans of gritty detective fiction, lovers of noir literature, and readers who appreciate intricate plots woven with sharp dialogue and atmospheric settings.
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Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep is the definitive hardboiled detective story, and Philip Marlowe is 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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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: 250g
Pages: 272
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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