The big sleep /

Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959.

The big sleep / Raymond Chandler. - First Vintage crime/Black Lizard edition. - New York : Vintage Books, 1992. - 231 pages ; 21 cm - Vintage crime/Black Lizard . - Vintage crime/Black Lizard. .

Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1939.

When a case of blackmail involving the daughter of a California millionaire leads to murder, the inimitable Philip Marlowe is stirred into action as he becomes embroiled in a troublesome case of extortion complicated by kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder.

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Marlowe, Philip (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Private investigators--California--Los Angeles--Fiction.


Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.


Mystery fiction.
Noir fiction

PS3505.H3224 / B5 1992

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