The Big Sleep Av Raymond Chandler

<p><b>'I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.'</b><br><br>Los Angeles Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is blackmailing him. A broken, weary old man, Sternwood just wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. However, with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out. And that's before he stumbles over the first corpse.<br><br><i>The Big Sleep</i> is Raymond Chandler's first novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe.<br><br>'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' <i>Sunday Times<br></i><br>'Chandler grips the mind from the first sentence' <i>Daily Telegraph </i><br><br>'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br>'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess<br><br><b>Discover the newest addition to the inimitable Philip Marlowe series - <i>Only to Sleep </i>by Lawrence Osborne - out 6 September 2018 in hardback and ebook from Hogarth.</b></p>