The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
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Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, which involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder
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Fiction, Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, Women, General, Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled, Marlowe, philip (fictitious character), fiction, California, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Private investigators, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Children's fiction, Mystery and detective stories, English language, textbooks for foreign speakers, Mystery & detectivePlaces
Los Angeles (Calif.), California, Los AngelesTimes
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The Big Sleep
2002, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Alfred A. Knopf
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1992, Vintage Books
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"It was about eleven o’clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark blue clocks on them. 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."
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