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 . . .
ISBN: | 9780241970775 |
Publication date: | 14th August 2014 |
Author: | Raymond Chandler |
Publisher: | Penguin Books an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 250 pages |
Series: | Penguin Essentials |
Genres: |
Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction Classic fiction: general and literary Classic crime and mystery fiction |