The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep

by Raymond Chandler

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Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, which involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder

ISBN: 9788373192249

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Adam Sessler

Adam Sessler

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"I just finished reading through all of Chandler's Marlowe novels and I love them, especially as an amazing catalogue of the changes in Los Angeles from the pre- to postwar eras. Be forewarned though, the sexual/racial attitudes are not comfortable."

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