# The Big Sleep

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- Authors: [Raymond Chandler](https://www.bookquiver.com/raymond-chandler)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2005-07-07

## Description

Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But 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 ...

## Editions

### The Big Sleep

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: audio
- Length: 6 h 33 min
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- ISBN: 978-02-4198-943-2
- Published: 2020-12-17
- Language: en_GB

### The Big Sleep

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4195-628-1
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2018-03-01
- Language: en_GB

### The Big Sleep

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4197-077-5
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2014-08-14
- Language: en_GB

### The Big Sleep

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4191-111-3
- Published: 2005-07-07
- Language: en_GB

## This book in other languages

- [Głęboki sen](https://www.bookquiver.com/raymond-chandler/pl/gleboki-sen) (pl_PL)