Philip Marlowe Novel The Big Sleep, Book 1, (Paperback)

from sweetiegherkin

In The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler introduces his private eye Philip Marlowe showcasing his skills in a case that begins as a simple blackmail problem that quickly escalates to murder. This book is...

from atimco

Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, first published in 1939, is one of the more influential works in the modern mystery genre, and my first real foray into hardboiled crime fiction. I listened to thi...

from ctpress

"I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintance. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them du...

from DeltaQueen50

It was impossible to read The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler and not think of the 1946 movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. So in my mind, Phillip Marlowe was Bogart. This is a darkly d...

from AHS-Wolfy

Classic noir mystery as Philip Marlowe gets a début outing where the body count is almost as high as the amount of raindrops that fall. He has been hired by General Sternwood to look into a simple ...