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Overview. The Big Sleep is a hard-boiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler, first published in 1939. It introduces private detective Philip Marlowe, who is hired to untangle a web of deception involving the wealthy Sternwood family.
Jun 11, 2002 · 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.
The address was in ink, in the slanted printing engineers use. The envelope was slit. I opened it up and took out a brown card and three slips of stiff paper. The card was of thin brown linen, printed in gold: "Mr. Arthur Gwynn Geiger." No address. Very small in the lower left-hand corner: "Rare Books and De Luxe Editions." I turned the card over.
Jun 11, 2002 · Raymond Chandler. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jun 11, 2002 - Fiction - 240 pages. The renowned novel from the crime fiction master, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles...
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.
Nov 25, 2014 · Robert McCrum. Mon 24 Nov 2014 00.45 EST. E nter Philip Marlowe, one of the great characters in the Anglo-American novel, a protagonist to rival and possibly surpass Sherlock Holmes. Marlowe holds...
Brody and Agnes Lozelle, an employee of Geiger, have been plotting a takeover of Geiger's smut racket. Brody is also in possession of the negatives and prints of the scandalous pictures of Carmen Sternwood—pictures he uses to bribe Carmen's sister, Vivian, for money.
