The Big Sleep
Book formats
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Paperback No offers
Book short specifications
- Author
- Raymond Chandler, Ian Rankin
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Series
- Penguin Essentials
- Language
- english
- Release date
- August 14, 2014
- ISBN
- 978-0-241-97077-5
- GTIN
- 9780241970775
- Weight, g
- 148
- Publisher's website
- penguin.co.uk
About
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 . . .