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The Big Sleep

by Raymond Chandler, Ian Rankin
The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep

Gritty, classic detective noir in seamy Los Angeles.

If you have an appreciation for masterful prose and snappy dialogue, complete with a sense of walking through the smoky jazz bars and dimly lit streets of classic film noir, "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler will not disappoint. As you follow the iconic Philip Marlowe through the underbelly of Los Angeles, you'll find a complex mystery that's as much about the detective's moral compass as it is about the crime itself. It's a must-read for any fan of the genre, transporting you to an era where the detective story was king and the twists are as sharp as Marlowe's wit.

  • Anthony Award Nominee for Best Novel of the Century (2000)
  • CWA Best Ever Nominee for Crime Novel (2013)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Big Sleep

by Raymond Chandler, Ian Rankin
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ISBN: 9780141037592
Authors: Raymond Chandler, Ian Rankin
Publisher: Penguin
Date of Publication: 2008-01-09
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Mystery/Crime/Thriller
Related Topics: Mystery, Classics, Thriller, Crime
Goodreads rating: 3.95
(rated by 163583 readers)

Description

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid....He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. This is the Code of the Private Eye as defined by Raymond Chandler in his 1944 essay The Simple Act of Murder. Such a man was Philip Marlowe, private eye, an educated, heroic, streetwise, rugged individualist and the hero of Chandler's first novel, The Big Sleep. This work established Chandler as the master of the 'hard-boiled' detective novel, and his articulate and literary style of writing won him a large audience, which ranged from the man in the street to the most sophisticated intellectual.
 

Gritty, classic detective noir in seamy Los Angeles.

If you have an appreciation for masterful prose and snappy dialogue, complete with a sense of walking through the smoky jazz bars and dimly lit streets of classic film noir, "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler will not disappoint. As you follow the iconic Philip Marlowe through the underbelly of Los Angeles, you'll find a complex mystery that's as much about the detective's moral compass as it is about the crime itself. It's a must-read for any fan of the genre, transporting you to an era where the detective story was king and the twists are as sharp as Marlowe's wit.

  • Anthony Award Nominee for Best Novel of the Century (2000)
  • CWA Best Ever Nominee for Crime Novel (2013)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.