The Big Sleep Farewell My Lovely The High WindowRaymond ChandlerLabel: Everyman's LibraryDescription: Raymond Chandler’s first three novels published here in one volume established his reputation as an unsurpassed master of hard-boiled detective fiction. The Big Sleep Chandler’s first novel introduces Philip Marlowe a private detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s as he takes on a case involving a paralysed California millionaire two psychotic daughters blackmail and murder. In Farewell My Lovely Marlowe deals with the gambling circuit a murder he stumbles upon and three very beautiful but potentially deadly women. In The High Window Marlowe searches the California underworld for a priceless gold coin and finds himself deep in the tangled affairs of a dead coin collector. In all three novels Chandler’s hard-edged prose colourful characters vivid vernacular and above all his enigmatic loner of a hero establish his enduring claim to the heights of his chosen genre.
