The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
A master of the 'hard-boiled' detective novel, Raymond Chandler introduced readers to Philip Marlowe, a streetwise and heroic private eye, in his first novel, The Big Sleep. With his articulate and literary writing style, Chandler won over a wide audience, from the everyday person to the intellectual elite. Selected as one of Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels, this book will keep you on your toes from the very first sentence.
Publish Date
1988-07-12T00:00:00.000Z
1988-07-12T00:00:00.000Z
first published in 1939
Goodreads Rating
3.95
ISBN
9780804168885
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2021-03-20T20:24:27.000Z
I just finished reading through all of Chandler's Marlowe novels and I love them, especially as an amazing catalogue of the changes in Los Angeles from the pre- to postwar eras. Be forewarned though, the sexual/racial attitudes are not comfortable. – source