The Big Sleep/Farewell, My Lovely/the High Window
Author(s): Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler's first three novels, published here in one volume, established his reputation as an unsurpassed master of hard-boiled detective fiction.
The Big Sleep, Chandler's 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 paralyzed 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, Chandler's hard-edged prose, colorful characters, vivid vernacular, and, above all, his enigmatic loner of a hero, enduringly establish his claim not only to the heights of his chosen genre but to the pantheon of literary art.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- : 0.720305
- : 15 October 2002
- : 1.47 Inches X 5.38 Inches X 8.27 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : 696
- : 1002
- : Hardback
- : Raymond Chandler