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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #01) by Chandler, Raymond is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #01) about?
SUMMARY: "His thin, claw-like hands were folded loosely on the rug, purple-nailed. A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wild flowers fighting for life on a bare rock." Published in 1939, when Raymond Chandler was 50, this is the first of the Philip Marlowe novels. Its bursts of sex, violence, and explosively direct prose changed detective fiction forever. "She was trouble. She was tall and rangy and strong-looking. Her hair was black and wiry and parted in the middle. She had a good mouth and a good chin. There was a sulky droop to her lips and the lower lip was full."
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Chandler, Raymond
- Publisher
- Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781439507308
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Mystery, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 4.03 / 5 (85,883 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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