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The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler

The Big Sleep By Raymond Chandler

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler


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Summary

Los Angeles PI Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is 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.

The Big Sleep Summary

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

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 Big Sleep Reviews

'Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph 'One of the greatest crime writers, who set the standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times 'Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence' - Ross MacDonald

About Raymond Chandler

Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction.

Additional information

GOR003254155
9780241144497
0241144493
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Used - Good
Hardback
Penguin Books Ltd
20090402
256
N/A
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