Raymond Chandler,Diane Johnson: The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window
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Author: Raymond Chandler,Diane Johnson
Number of Pages: 696 pages
Published Date: 15 Oct 2002
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Country: New York, NY, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780375415012
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(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) 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 paralyzed 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, colorful characters, vivid vernacular, and, above all, his enigmatic loner of a hero, enduringly establish his claim not only to the heights of his chosen genre but to the pantheon of literary art."