An edition of The Big Sleep
(1939)
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
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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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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 & detectivePlaces
Los Angeles (Calif.), California, Los AngelesTimes
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The Big Sleep
2002, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Alfred A. Knopf
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The Big Sleep
1992, Vintage Books
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| May 20, 2020 | Edited by CoverBot | Added new cover |
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