The Big Sleep

Author: Raymond Chandler

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  • : $22.99 AUD
  • : 9780241970775
  • : Penguin Books
  • : Penguin Books
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  • : 0.142
  • : September 2014
  • : 181mm X 111mm
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  • : September 2014
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  • : Raymond Chandler
  • : Paperback
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  • : English
  • : 813.52
  • : very good
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Description

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...