Author: Chandler, Raymond, Rankin, Ian Classic fiction (pre c 1945)Published on 15 June 2011 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of the Phillip Marlowe series.Paperback | 256 pages131 x 195 x 19 | 186g I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didnt care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.Los Angeles Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is blackmailing him. A broken, weary old man, Sternwood just wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. However, with Sternwoods two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LAs seedy backstreets, Marlowes got his work cut out. And thats before he stumbles over the first corpse.The Big Sleep is Raymond Chandlers first novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe.One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain Sunday TimesChandler grips the mind from the first sentence Daily Telegraph One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain Sunday TimesChandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes Anthony BurgessDiscover the newest addition to the inimitable Philip Marlowe series - Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne - out 6 September 2018 in hardback and ebook from Hogarth.
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