The Big Sleep

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Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out - and that's before he stumbles over the first corpse ...

© Raymond Chandler 1988 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Critics Review

  • Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious

    The New York Times Book Review

  • Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since

    Paul Auster

  • Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude

    Erle Stanley Gardner

  • [T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision

    New York Review of Books

  • Raymond Chandler is a master

    New York Times

  • Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye

    Los Angeles Times

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