The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler

About this book

Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, which involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder

Subjects

  • california, fiction
  • detective and mystery stories
  • english language, textbooks for foreign speakers
  • fiction
  • fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled
  • general
  • los angeles (calif.), fiction
  • marlowe, philip (fictitious character), fiction
  • mystery and detective stories
  • mystery & detective
  • philip marlowe (fictitious character)
  • private investigators
  • private investigators, fiction
  • women