num_pages: 672
description: Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel 'The Big Sleep' in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colourful underworld figures - is the background to a story reflecting all the tarnished glitter of the great American Dream. The detective's iconic image burns just as brightly in 'Farewell My Lovely', on the trail of a missing nightclub crooner. And the inimitable Marlowe is able to prove that trouble really is his business in Raymond Chandler's brilliant epitaph, 'The Long Goodbye'.
language: English
title: The Big Sleep  and Other Novels
titlecomplete: The Big Sleep  and Other Novels (Philip Marlowe #1-2, 6)
genres: Classics, American, Noir, Mystery, Modern Classics, Novels, Detective, Thriller, Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 3159
series: Philip Marlowe
publisher: Penguin