The big sleep
Chandler, Raymond, 1888-19592014
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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...
Main title:
The big sleep / Raymond Chandler.
Author:
Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959, author
Edition:
Penguin Essentials edition.
Imprint:
London : Hamish Hamilton, 2014.
Collation:
250 pages ; 18 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
This edition originally published: 2005.
ISBN:
9780241970775 (paperback)0241970776 (paperback)
Dewey class:
813.52
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
309918
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Paperbacks | C | Available |