” The Big Sleep” is Raymond Chandler`s most famous & popular novel of all Los Angeles. PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled & wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer & he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood`s two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA`s seedy backstreets, Marlowe`s got his work cut out
- & that`s before he stumbles over the first corpse...” Anything Chandler writes about 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). Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 & died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, & he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction. His books include ” The Big Sleep”, ” The Little Sister”, ” Farewell”, ” My Lovely”, ” The Long Good-bye”, ” The Lady in the Lake”, ” Playback”, ” Killer in the Rain”, ” The High Window” & ” Trouble is My Business”.