The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window : Volume 1
Chandler, Raymond2002
Books, Manuscripts
Philip Marlowe, a private detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s, as he takes on a case involving a paralysed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail and murder. Raymond Chandlers first three novels, published here in one volume, established his reputation as an unsurpassed master of hard-boiled detective fiction. The Big Sleep, Chandlers first novel, introduces Philip Marlowe, a private detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s, as he takes on a case involving a paralysed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail and murder. In Farewell, My Lovely, Marlowe deals with the gambling circuit, a murder he stumbles upon, and three very beautiful but potentially deadly women. In The High Window, Marlowe searches the California underworld for a priceless gold coin and finds himself deep in the tangled affairs of a dead coin collector. In all three novels, Chandlers hard-edged prose, colourful characters, vivid vernacular, and, above all, his enigmatic loner of a hero, establish his enduring claim to the heights of his chosen genre.
Main title:
The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window : Volume 1 / Raymond Chandler ; introduction by Diane Johnson.
Author:
Chandler, Raymond, author
Imprint:
London : Everyman, 2002.
Collation:
696 pages ; 21 x 4 cm
ISBN:
9781857152555
Dewey class:
FIC FIC
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
454982