Hard-boiled detective fiction at its best- Raymond Chandler's best loved novel 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 . . .
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Books LTD
ISBN-13
9780241970775
eBay Product ID (ePID)
207642487
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Big Sleep
Author
Raymond Chandler
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Crime, Books
Publication Year
2014
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
181mm
Item Width
121mm
Item Weight
148g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Raymond Chandler
Series Title
Penguin Essentials
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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