The Big Sleep And Other Novels Av Raymond Chandler

<p><b>One of the BBC''s ''100 Novels That Shaped Our World''</b><br><br><b>''Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since'' Paul Auster, author of <i>The New York Trilogy</i></b><br><br>Raymond Chandler was America''s preeminent writer of detective fiction, and this edition of <i>The Big Sleep and Other Novels</i> collects three of the best novels to feature his hard-drinking, philosophising PI, Philip Marlowe.<br><br>Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel <i>The Big Sleep</i> in 1939. Often imitated but never bettered, it is in Marlowe''s long shadow that every fictional detective must stand - and under the influence of Raymond Chandler''s addictive prose that every crime author must write. Marlowe''s entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colourful underworld figures - is the background to a story reflecting