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The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler, Ian Rankin

From Shelf: The 100 best novels written in English: the full list (Robert McCrum, The Guardian Dec 2021)

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.

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 . . .

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
256
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN:
9780241970775
Published Date:
14/8/2014
Dimensions:
181mm x 111mm x 16mm
Weight:
142g
Category:
Crime & mystery

RRP: £8.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780241970775


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