The Big SleepRaymond ChandlerLabel: Penguin Books LtdDescription: Hard-boiled detective fiction at its best: Raymond Chandler's best loved novel The Big Sleep published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.'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 PI Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is indulging in some petty blackmail. A weary old man Sternwood just wants the problem to go away. But Marlowe finds he has his work cut out just keeping Sternwood's wild devil-may-care daughters out of trouble as they prowl LA's dirtiest and darkest streets. And pretty soon he's up to his neck in hoodlums and corpses . . .
