One of the BBCs 100 Novels That Shaped Our WorldRaymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since Paul Auster, author of The New York TrilogyRaymond Chandler was Americas preeminent writer of detective fiction, and this edition of The Big Sleep and Other Novels collects three of the best novels to feature his harddrinking, philosophising PI, Philip Marlowe.Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep in 1939. Often imitated but never bettered, it is in Marlowes long shadow that every fictional detective must stand and under the influence of Raymond Chandlers addictive prose that every crime author must write. Marlowes entanglement with the Sternwood family and an attendant cast of colourful underworld figures is the background to a story reflecting all the tarnished glitter of the great American Dream. The hardboiled detectives iconic image burns just as brightly in Farewell My Lovely, on the trail of a missing nightclub crooner. And the inimitable Marlowe is able to prove that trouble really is his business in Raymond Chandlers brilliant epitaph, The Long Goodbye.One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards that others still try to attain Sunday TimesChandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sunblinded streets of Los Angelos with a romantic presence Ross Macdonald, author of The Drowning Pool

Binding: Paperback;672 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FA; Weight: 578 g; Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 30

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