The Big Sleep - MXHDR BookWyrm

Audio CD

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2005 by Phoenix Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-59777-052-1
OCLC Number:: 70114805

(2 reviews)

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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Jon Nixon reviewed The big sleep by Raymond Chandler

Review of 'The big sleep' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

I love this book. It's fast paced, tense and exciting. The characters are great. The dialogue is amazing. The plot gets more and more convoluted and nastier and nastier all the way through, and the wry first person monologue is just delightful.

psikonauta

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Feb. 5, 2020

Subjects

Mystery & Detective - Historical
Fiction
Unabridged Audio - Fiction/Mystery
Mystery/Suspense
Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled
Audiobooks
California
Chronological Period/1930's
Cultural Region/Southern California
Extortion
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled
Fiction/Mystery & Detective - General
Geographic Orientation/California
Investigation
Locality/Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Marlowe, Philip (Fictitious character)
Murder
Private investigators