The Big Sleep

by Raymond Chandler

First published 1939 · 229 pages

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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

  • Fiction
  • Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character)
  • Private investigators
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • Women
  • General
  • California, fiction
  • Los angeles (calif.), fiction

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