An edition of The Big Sleep (1939)

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An edition of The Big Sleep (1939)

The Big Sleep

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  • ★★★★ 4.17 ·
  • 12 Ratings
  • 155 Want to read
  • 6 Currently reading
  • 29 Have read

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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Vintage
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English

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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 & detective
People
Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character)
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Los Angeles (Calif.), California, Los Angeles
Times
1930s

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Big Sleep
2018, Penguin Books, Limited
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Big Sleep
2014, Penguin Books, Limited
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The Big Sleep
Dec 20, 2007, Oxford University Press, USA
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The big sleep
2004, Penguin
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Chang mian bu xing
2002, Qun zhong chu ban she
in Chinese
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The Big Sleep
2002, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Alfred A. Knopf
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The big sleep
1992, Vintage Books
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Le grand sommeil
1987, Gallimard
in French
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The Big Sleep
April 12, 1978, Vintage
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The big sleep
1976, 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."

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bigsleepthe00raym
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9780394726311
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