description: 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! --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
language: English
title: The Big Sleep
titlecomplete: The Big Sleep
characters: Vivian Regan, Mona Mars, Owen Taylor, Bernie Ohls, Harry Jones, Agnes Lozelle, Eddie Mars, Philip Marlowe, Joe Brody, General Guy Sternwood, Carmen Sternwood, Arthur Gwynn Geiger, Lash Camino, Carol Lundgren, Rusty Regan
genres: Fiction, American, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Classics, Novels, Crime
ratings_count: 151493
places: Los Angeles area, California, Hollywood, California, Los Angeles, California
series: Philip Marlowe
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Novel of the Century, awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: CWA Best Ever
category: Crime Novel
publisher: Center Point Pub