The Big Sleep

Name: The Big Sleep
Author: Raymond Chandler

by Raymond Chandler

Hard-boiled detective novel of corruption and murder in Los Angeles featuring private eye Philip Marlowe

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Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler virtually invented the hard-boiled private eye novel as a literary art form. His Philip Marlowe stories brought poetic prose and moral complexity to the crime genre, creating one of fiction's most enduring protagonists. His influence on noir fiction, film, and television is immeasurable.

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