The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
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For wise-cracking Private Eye Philip Marlowe, murder is all in a day's work...
There are no streets meaner than those of L.A.'s underworld - but luckily one detective has more than his fair share of street smarts. Here, in the first two novels featuring the immortal creation Philip Marlowe, we see the cynical sleuth taking on a nasty case of blackmail involving a Californian millionaire and his two devil-may-care daughters; then dealing with a missing nightclub crooner (plus several gangsters with a habit of shooting first and talking later).
Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since-- Paul Auster
One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards that others still try to attain. * Sunday Times *
One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards that others still try to attain. * Sunday Times *
Raymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, but moved to England with his family when he was twelve. Returning to America in 1912, he settled in California. It was during the Depression era that he seriously turned his hand to writing, and his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six years later, when he was fifty, by his first novel, The Big Sleep. Chandler died in 1959.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241654149 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241654149 |
| Title | The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely |
| Author | Raymond Chandler |
| Series | Penguin Modern Classics - Crime And Espionage |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2023-10-05 |
| Number of pages | 512 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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