Quintessential noir; sharp, gritty, complex mystery.
If you love getting tangled in a web where every character drips with motive and malice, "The Big Sleep" will be your kind of puzzle. Raymond Chandler's prose is as tight and sharp as Marlowe's wit, offering a story that not only epitomizes the hard-boiled detective genre but also examines the underbelly of LA's glittering facade.
ISBN: 9780394758282
Authors:
Raymond Chandler
Publisher: Vintage Crime
Date of Publication: 1988-07-12
Format: Paperback
Related Collections:
Mystery/Crime/Thriller
Goodreads rating: 3.95
(rated by 154223 readers)
Description
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid....He is the hero; he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man.This is the Code of the Private Eye as defined by Raymond Chandler in his 1944 essay The Simple Act of Murder. Such a man was Philip Marlowe, private eye, an educated, heroic, streetwise, rugged individualist and the hero of Chandler's first novel, The Big Sleep. This work established Chandler as the master of the 'hard-boiled' detective novel, and his articulate and literary style of writing won him a large audience, which ranged from the man in the street to the most sophisticated intellectual.
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