The Big Sleep
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4.4 • 57 Ratings
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- £5.99
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
Founder of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction, The Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler's most famous and popular novel of all
Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out - and that's before he stumbles over the first corpse . . .
THE FIRST NOVEL FEATURING LACONIC PI PHILIP MARLOWE, THE STORY CONTINUES IN FAREWELL, MY LOVELY
'Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph
'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times
'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess
Customer Reviews
The big daddy of all detective novels
Still the best. I love it's weird gritty poetry.
Wonderful book, a very good introduction to Chandler
I read this a while back on paper but thought I ought to review it on iBook to tell people just how good it is. A proper hardboiled detective like none ive read before or since. The characters were wonderful and extremely well written and considering the short length of the book everything was described in good detail.
I'm going to get to grips with more of chandlers work soon and I hope to enjoy it as much as I loved this one.