Founder of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction, The Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler's most famous and popular novel of all

Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out - and that's before he stumbles over the first corpse...
THE FIRST NOVEL FEATURING LACONIC PI PHILIP MARLOWE, THE STORY CONTINUES IN FAREWELL, MY LOVELY

'Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph

'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times

'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess

• We started tracking this book on December 12, 2011.
• This book was £3.49 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 90 times in the past 4,517 days.
• The current price of this book is £5.99 last checked 23 hours ago.
• This lowest price this book has been offered at in the past year is £0.99.
• The lowest price to date was £0.99 last reached on February 8, 2024.
• This book has been £0.99 4 times since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was £7.49 last reached on February 12, 2012.
• This book has been £7.49 one time since we started tracking it.

• Crime, Thriller & MysteryMysteryHard-Boiled
• Crime, Thriller & MysteryMysteryPrivate Investigators

• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 254 Pages
• File Size: 2,945 KB