"The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler

Let's read "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler, published in 1939!

Los Angeles Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. The patriarch of the Sternwood family 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 backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out for him - and that's before he stumbles over the first corpse . . . 3.95/5.00 on Goodreads. 231 pages. *Credit to Goodreads for this summary.

Best-known as the creator of the original private eye Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of Chandler's books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of detective fiction. His books include The Big Sleep, The Little Sister, Farewell, My Lovely, The Long Good-bye, The Lady in the Lake, Playback, Killer in the Rain, The High Window and Trouble is My Business.

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