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>