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The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by American-British writer Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe. It has been adapted for film twice, in 1946 and again in 1978. The story is set in Los Angeles .
- Raymond Chandler
- 1939
Jul 12, 1988 · The Big Sleep. $29.99. (9,280) Only 1 left in stock - order soon. 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 ...
- Raymond Chandler
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- Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
This is the Code of the Private Eye as defined by Raymond Chandler in his 1944 essay The Simple Act of Murder. Such a man was Philip Marlowe, private eye, an educated, heroic, streetwise, rugged individualist and the hero of Chandler's first novel, The Big Sleep. This work established Chandler as the master of the 'hard-boiled' detective novel ...
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Learn about Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled detective novel, The Big Sleep, published in 1939. Find a book summary, character analysis, quotes, and adaptations of this classic crime story.
A synopsis of Raymond Chandler's classic detective novel, The Big Sleep, which follows private eye Philip Marlowe as he investigates a blackmail scheme and a missing person case. The novel features a complex web of characters, motives, and murders, as well as Marlowe's encounters with Carmen Sternwood, Mona Grant, and Eddie Mars.
- Raymond Chandler
- 1939
May 20, 2024 · The Big Sleep, classic hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1939. It was the first of seven novels to feature the famed detective Philip Marlowe. The story was filmed twice, in 1946 and 1978. Raymond Chandler. Raymond Chandler, 1946. The Big Sleep represents some major departures in the nature of the detective genre, changes ...
THE BIG SLEEP by Raymond Chandler. It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark blue clocks on them.
