'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 BurgessDiscover the newest addition to the inimitable Philip Marlowe series - Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne - out 6 September 2018 in hardback and ebook from Hogarth.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241956281Number of pages: 256Weight: 181 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mm
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Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up,hopeful,thoughtful,adventurous,sentimental,cynical and rebelliousRaymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America,and America has never looked the same to us sinceRaymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude
(T)he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence,and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller,but a stylist,a writer with a vision
Raymond Chandler is a masterPhilip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye
Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf,not even Faulkner...A great artistAnything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentenceRaymond Chandler
An Anglo-American crime writer whose work transcended the traditional boundaries of the genre,Raymond Chandler was one of the great prose stylists of the 20th century. He was the archetypal author of the'hard-boiled'school of crime writing and created the iconic private eye Philip Marlowe.
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Best know for his Rebusseries,they deliver hard-boiled crime with a distinct Scottish flavour- sometimes cheesily referred to as "Tartan Noir". DI John Rebus is an old-fashioned copper with a love of off-kilter music,and the odd refreshment.
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