num_pages: 261
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...
language: English
title: The Big Sleep
titlecomplete: The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
characters: Philip Marlowe, Harry Jones, Eddie Mars, Joe Brody, Mona Mars, Owen Taylor, Vivian Regan, Lash Camino, Rusty Regan, Arthur Gwynn Geiger, Carol Lundgren, Carmen Sternwood, General Guy Sternwood, Bernie Ohls, Agnes Lozelle
genres: American, Detective, Thriller, Novels, Crime, Noir, Classics, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Fiction
ratings_count: 151426
places: Hollywood, California, Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles area, 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: ImPress Mystery