'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.' Los Angeles Private
Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General
Sternwood to discover who is blackmailing him. A broken, weary old
man, Sternwood just wants Marlowe to make the problem go away.
However, with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters
prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out.
And that's before he stumbles over the first corpse. The Big Sleep
is Raymond Chandler's first novel featuring laconic PI Philip
Marlowe. 'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards
others still try to attain' Sunday Times 'Chandler grips the mind
from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph 'One of the greatest crime
writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times
'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as
immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess Discover the newest
addition to the inimitable Philip Marlowe series - Only to Sleep by
Lawrence Osborne - out 6 September 2018 in hardback and ebook from
Hogarth.
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