Book cover for The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler

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The renowned novel from the crime fiction master, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe. • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years

A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.

“Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.” —The New York Times Book Review
Pages
240
Released
1988
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN
9780394758282
Fiction
Mystery & Detective
Hard-boiled
Noir
Private Investigators

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