Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep (UK 2011)

From the Publisher:
'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.'

Los Angeles Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is blackmailing him. A broken, weary old man, Sternwood just wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. However, with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out. And that's before he stumbles over the first corpse.

The Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler's first novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe.

'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' -- Sunday Times

Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep. Penguin, ISBN: 9780241956281 (June, 2011), 256 p., £9.99.

Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep (UK 2005)

From the Publisher:
'Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.'
Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out - and that's before he stumbles over the first corpse...

'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' -- Sunday Times
'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' -- Anthony Burgess

Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep. A Philip Marlowe Mystery. Introduction by Ian Rankin. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2005, ISBN: 0140108920, 250 p., £7.99.