The Big Sleep  and Other Novels

The Big Sleep and Other Novels

1939 • 979 pages

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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.

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8 primary books10 released books

Philip Marlowe

Philip Marlowe is a 10-book series with 8 primary works first released in 1934 with contributions by Raymond Chandler.

The Big Sleep
Farewell, My Lovely
Fereastra de sus
The Lady in the Lake
The  little sister
The Long Goodbye
Playback
Trouble Is My Business
The Finger Man
Finger Man and Other Stories

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