The Big Sleep and Other Novels
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Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colourful underworld figures - is the background to a story reflecting all the tarnished glitter of the great American Dream. The detective's iconic image burns just as brightly in Farewell My Lovely, on the trail of a missing nightclub crooner. And the inimitable Marlowe is able to prove that trouble really is his business in Raymond Chandler's brilliant epitaph, The Long Goodbye.
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Oh well, what a nice read. Nothing spectacular or anything, but still a very nice easy read. Just one thing I take away, back in the 1920 EVERYBODY smoked. Really, there isn't a page where one of the characters doesn't light up a fag. Women, men, everyone smokes. Oh an drinking. Drinking and driving. Wild times.
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8 primary books9 released booksPhilip Marlowe is a 10-book series with 8 primary works first released in 1934 with contributions by Raymond Chandler and Cornelia Bucur.
