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Author:

Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959, author.

Title:

The big sleep [electronic resource] / Raymond Chandler.

Format:

[electronic resource] /

Publisher:

Wildside Press LLC,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

1 online resource

Subject:

Marlowe, Philip--(Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Private investigators--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--Fiction.
Electronic books.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.

Other Authors:

hoopla digital.

Notes:

Digital content provided by hoopla.

Summary:

The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first to feature detective Philip Marlowe. The work has been adapted twice into film, once in 1946 and again in 1978. The story is set in Los Angeles, California and is noted for its complexity, with many characters double-crossing one another and many secrets being exposed throughout the narrative. The title is a euphemism for death; it refers to a rumination in the final pages of the book about "sleeping the big sleep." In 1999, the book was voted ninety-sixth of Le Monde's "100 Books of the Century". In 2005, it was included in "TIME's List of the 100 Best Novels."

Series:

Philip Marlowe mystery ; 1
Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959. Philip Marlowe mystery ; 1.

ISBN:

1479403776 (electronic bk.)
9781479403776 (electronic bk.)

Locations:

GFPE771 -- Altoona Public Library (Altoona)