The Big Sleep

Author(s): Raymond Chandler

Crime & Thrillers

Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. Marlowe's got his work cut out. But that's before he stumbles over the first corpse.

General Information

  • : 9780140108927
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : 0.145
  • : 01 May 1988
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 01 January 2013
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Raymond Chandler
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : 272
  • : Crime & mystery

More About The Product

Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction.