The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler · 1939
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About the book
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
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.
Book details
- Year
- 1939
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 76
- Reader rating
- 4.0 / 5 (50)
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN
- 9780241970775
Data source: Wikidata
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