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The big sleep

Raymond Chandler (Author), Helga Guinness Greene Connolly (Copyright holder), Alfred A. Knopf, Inc (Publisher)
Chandler's first novel, published in 1939, introduces Philip Marlowe, a 38-year-old P.I. moving through the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s. This case involves a paralyzed California millionaire, his two psychotic daughters, blackmail, kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder

Print Book, English, 1969
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1969