The Big Sleep and Other Novels
Raymond Chandler
Penguin Books Ltd
<p>Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel <i>The Big Sleep</i> in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colourful underworld figures - is the background to a story reflecting all the tarnished glitter of the great American Dream. The detective's iconic image burns just as brightly in <i>Farewell My Lovely</i>, on the trail of a missing nightclub crooner. And the inimitable Marlowe is able to prove that trouble really is his business in Raymond Chandler's brilliant epitaph, <i>The Long Goodbye</i>.</p>