# The Big Sleep and Other Novels

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- Authors: [Raymond Chandler](https://www.bookquiver.com/raymond-chandler)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4118-261-2
- Pages: 672
- Published: 2000-02-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 .