The Big Sleep

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penquin Books
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2008
Edition: Reprint

Description: 250 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy. A Family That Consists Of An Old Paralysed Ex Soldier, Two Beautiful Daughters And A Missing Son In Law Would Inevitably Attract Blackmailers, Gangsters And Purveyors Of Forbidden Thrills.

Publishers Description: Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid....He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man.This is the Code of the Private Eye as defined by Raymond Chandler in his 1944 essay The Simple Act of Murder. Such a man was Philip Marlowe, private eye, an educated, heroic, streetwise, rugged individualist and the hero of Chandlers first novel, The Big Sleep. This work established Chandler as the master of the hard-boiled detective novel, and his articulate and literary style of writing won him a large audience, which ranged from the man in the street to the most sophisticated intellectual.

ISBN: 9780141037592