The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window Av Raymond Chandler

<p><b>Raymond Chandler¿s first three novels, published here in one volume, established his reputation as an unsurpassed master of hard-boiled detective fiction.</b><br><br><i>The Big Sleep</i>, Chandler¿s first novel, introduces Philip Marlowe, a private detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s, as he takes on a case involving a paralysed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail and murder. <br><br>In <i>Farewell, My Lovely</i>, Marlowe deals with the gambling circuit, a murder he stumbles upon, and three very beautiful but potentially deadly women. <br><br>In <i>The High Window</i>, Marlowe searches the California underworld for a priceless gold coin and finds himself deep in the tangled affairs of a dead coin collector. <br><br><b>In all three novels, Chandler¿s hard-edged prose, colourful characters, vivid vernacular, and, above all, his enigmatic loner of a hero, establish his enduring claim to the heights of his chosen genre.</b></p>