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Essential Read

The Big Sleep

by Raymond Chandler · 1939

Mystery & Thriller · ranked #8 in category

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by an elderly General to handle a blackmailer — and finds himself in a Los Angeles of corruption, murder and double-crossing that extends far beyond the original case. Chandler's first novel introduced one of fiction's iconic protagonists and established the hardboiled detective as an American archetype.

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The verdict

Category
Mystery & Thriller
First published
1939 · 1930s
Author
Raymond Chandler
Standing
Essential Read

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