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The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window: Volume 1

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window: Volume 1
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Raymond Chandler
Introduction by Diane Johnson
SeriesEveryman's Library CLASSICS
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:696
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 38
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Classic crime
ISBN/Barcode 9781857152555
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Everyman
Imprint Everyman's Library
Publication Date 26 September 2002
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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 paralysed 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, colourful characters, vivid vernacular, and, above all, his enigmatic loner of a hero, establish his enduring claim to the heights of his chosen genre.

Author Biography

Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and moved to England with his family when he was twelve. He attended Dulwich College, Alma Mater to some of the twentieth century's most renowned writers. Returning to America in 1912, he settled in California, worked in a number of jobs, and later married. It was during the Depression era that he seriously turned his hand to writing and his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six years later by his first novel. The Big Sleep introduced the world to Philip Marlowe, the often imitated but never-bettered hard-boiled private investigator.