The Big Sleep
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About The Big Sleep
The renowned novel from the crime fiction master, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe. • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in. “Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.” —The New York Times Book Review
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- Audience
- Adult/general
- Commitment
- Standalone or self-contained
- Estimated reading time
- 6.0 hours at about 40 pages per hour
- Length
- Shorter read
- Best for
- Readers seeking philip marlowe books in order
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The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, published in 1988, is a 242-page book for readers who prefer to browse by the experience of a story, not only by its sales category. Its strongest discovery signals include Philip Marlowe Books in Order.
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- Print ISBN
- 978-0-394-75828-2
- Published
- 1988
- Pages
- 242
