An edition of The Big Sleep (1939)

The Big Sleep

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The Big Sleep
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An edition of The Big Sleep (1939)

The Big Sleep

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  • ★★★★ 4.20 ·
  • 15 Ratings
  • 170 Want to read
  • 8 Currently reading
  • 33 Have read

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

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Holiday House
Language
English

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Subjects
Fiction, Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, Women, General, Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled, Marlowe, philip (fictitious character), fiction, California, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Private investigators, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Children's fiction, Mystery and detective stories, English language, textbooks for foreign speakers, Mystery & detective
People
Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character)
Places
Los Angeles (Calif.), California, Los Angeles
Times
1930s

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Cover of: Big Sleep
Big Sleep
2018, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
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Cover of: Big Sleep
Big Sleep
2014, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
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Cover of: The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep
Dec 20, 2007, Oxford University Press, USA
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Cover of: The big sleep
The big sleep
2004, Penguin
in English
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Cover of: Chang mian bu xing
Chang mian bu xing
2002, Qun zhong chu ban she
in Chinese
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Cover of: The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep
2002, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Alfred A. Knopf
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Cover of: The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep
March 1998, Holiday House
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Cover of: The big sleep
The big sleep
1992, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed.
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Cover of: Le grand sommeil
Le grand sommeil
1987, Gallimard
in French
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Cover of: The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep
April 12, 1978, Vintage
in English
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Cover of: The big sleep
The big sleep
1976, Vintage Books
in English
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"It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills."

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Otto Penzler's 1st Edition Library

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Hardcover

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OL12149997M
ISBN 10
1883402166
ISBN 13
9781883402167
OCLC/WorldCat
232353075
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