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The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler - Penguin, 1953


Title: The Big Sleep
Author: Raymond Chandler
Publisher: Penguin
Publication Date: 1953
Format: Softcover
Condition: This book is in good condition for its age other than some minor signs of wear. There is significant damage to the cover and spine, but the book is still readable.

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Reader's note

It was The Big Sleep which first established Raymond Chandler’s reputation on both sides of the Atlantic for producing tough, fast-moving mystery stories. Like all his novels, this book is more than a crime thriller: it is a novel of character, written with uncommon insight and power of suspense. The people involved in this tense narrative are a queer lot: the old, paralysed general, who made a fortune in oil: his two beautiful daughters - one a gambler, the other a degenerate; and an elusive adventurer of a son-in-law. Around such a family, with all its money, its vices, and its hidden scandals, it was inevitable that there should gather blackmailers, gangsters and other similar figures.