277 pages
English language
Published July 10, 1939 by Alfred A. Knopf.
The big sleep
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Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, which involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder
Subjects
- Marlowe, Philip (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
- Private investigators -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction.
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.