The Big Sleep : Popular Penguins
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Author:CHANDLER Raymond
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ISBN:9780141037592
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Publication Date:September 2008
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Pages:272
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Binding:Paperback
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Publisher:Penguin Books
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The Big Sleep : Popular Penguins
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Author:CHANDLER Raymond
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ISBN:9780141037592
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Publication Date:September 2008
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Pages:272
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Binding:Paperback
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Publisher:Penguin Books
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Country of Publication:
Description
Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep is the definitive hardboiled detective story and Philip Marlowe the perfect expression of the cynical, world-weary gumshoe. Hired by the crippled General Sternwood to shake off a blackmailer, Marlowe also has to deal with the general's two rebellious daughters, the gamblers and pornographers they run with and, soon enough, some inconvenient murders. Chandler's LA and the gutter-life that populate it made crime fiction what it is today and remain unmatched.
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Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep is the definitive hardboiled detective story and Philip Marlowe the perfect expression of the cynical, world-weary gumshoe. Hired by the crippled General Sternwood to shake off a blackmailer, Marlowe also has to deal with the general's two rebellious daughters, the gamblers and pornographers they run with and, soon enough, some inconvenient murders. Chandler's LA and the gutter-life that populate it made crime fiction what it is today and remain unmatched.