The Big Sleep

Informationen zum Autor Raymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, but moved to England with his family when he was twelve, where he attended Dulwich College, alma mater to some of the twentieth century's most renowned writers. Returning to America in 1912, he settled in California, worked in a number of jobs, and later married. It was during the Depression era that he seriously turned his hand to writing, and his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six years later, when he was fifty, by his first novel, The Big Sleep . Chandler died in 1959, having established himself as the finest crime writer in America. Klappentext Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Raymond Chandler, Chandler Raymond, Ian Rankin
• Assisted by: Ian Rankin (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 15.06.2011
• EAN: 9780241956281
• ISBN: 978-0-241-95628-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Philip Marlowe; Philip Marlowe; Phillip Marlowe
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Los Angeles, Hollywood, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction, c 1930 to c 1939, Classic crime and mystery fiction