Hard-boiled detective fiction at its best: Raymond Chandler's best loved novel, The Big Sleep, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
'I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.'
Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is indulging in some petty blackmail. A weary, old man, Sternwood just wants the problem to go away. But Marlowe finds he has his work cut out just keeping Sternwood's wild, devil-may-care daughters out of trouble as they prowl LA's dirtiest and darkest streets. And pretty soon, he's up to his neck in hoodlums and corpses . . .
| ISBN: | 9780241970775 |
| Publication date: | 14th August 2014 |
| Author: | Raymond Chandler |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 250 pages |
| Series: | Penguin Essentials |
| Genres: |
Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction Classic fiction: general and literary Classic crime and mystery fiction |
Hard-boiled detective fiction at its best: Raymond Chandler's best loved novel, The Big Sleep, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
'I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.'
Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is indulging in some petty blackmail. A weary, old man, Sternwood just wants the problem to go away. But Marlowe finds he has his work cut out just keeping Sternwood's wild, devil-may-care daughters out of trouble as they prowl LA's dirtiest and darkest streets. And pretty soon, he's up to his neck in hoodlums and corpses . . .
The Big Sleep features in the following genres: Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic crime and mystery fiction
The Big Sleep is available in Paperback, , Hardback
The Big Sleep was written by Raymond Chandler and published by Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd
The Big Sleep has 250 pages
Yes it is part of Penguin Essentials series
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