Title: The Big Sleep and Other Novels
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Mystery, California, fiction, Marlowe, philip (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Private investigators, fiction, FICTION / Classics, Private investigators, American Detective and mystery stories, FICTION / Crime