# The Big Sleep

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- Book: [The Big Sleep](https://www.bookquiver.com/raymond-chandler/the-big-sleep) ([The Big Sleep.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/raymond-chandler/the-big-sleep.md))
- Authors: [Raymond Chandler](https://www.bookquiver.com/raymond-chandler)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4195-628-1
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2018-03-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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 ...