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THE BIG SLEEP
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| By: |
Raymond Chandler, Ian Rankin |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0241970776 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780241970775 |
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| Publisher: |
PENGUIN BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
14 August, 2014 |
| Series: |
Penguin Essentials |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is indulging in some petty blackmail. A weary, old man, Sternwood just wants the problem to go away. But Marlowe finds he has his work cut out just keeping Sternwood's wild, devil-may-care daughters out of trouble as they prowl LA's dirtiest and darkest streets. |
| Synopsis: |
Hard-boiled detective fiction at its best: Raymond Chandler's best loved novel, The Big Sleep, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.'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 PI Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is indulging in some petty blackmail. A weary, old man, Sternwood just wants the problem to go away. But Marlowe finds he has his work cut out just keeping Sternwood's wild, devil-may-care daughters out of trouble as they prowl LA's dirtiest and darkest streets. And pretty soon, he's up to his neck in hoodlums and corpses . . . |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Penguin Books Ltd |
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