# 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: 978-02-4197-077-5
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2014-08-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.' Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is indulging in some petty blackmail. A weary, old man, Sternwood just wants the problem to go away. But Marlowe finds he has his work cut out just keeping Sternwood's wild, devil-may-care daughters out of trouble as they prowl LA's dirtiest and darkest streets. And pretty soon, he's up to his neck in hoodlums and corpses . . .