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020			_a9780241956281
082			_a813.52 _bCHA/B
100			_aChandler, Raymond
245			_aThe big sleep
260			_aUK _bPenguin books _c2011
300			_a251 p.
520			_a'I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.' Los Angeles Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is blackmailing him. A broken, weary old man, Sternwood just wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. However, 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 Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler's first novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe. 'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times 'Chandler 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
650			_aPrivate investigators
650			_aMarlowe, Philip (Fictitious character)
650			_aCalifornia--Los Angeles
650			_aDetective and mystery stories
942			_cBK
999			_c66242 _d66242