The Big Sleep
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: E-book
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781400030156
First sentence: It was about eleven o’clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark blue clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn’t care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.