The big sleep

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261 pages

English language

Published July 10, 2002 by ImPress Mystery.

ISBN:
978-0-7621-8880-2
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OCLC Number:
50129288

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3 stars (3 reviews)

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

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4 stars

Pretty phenomenal. I enjoyed that Phillip was smarter than me (and likely most readers). I still have questions about a few loose ends. It is a bit too messy at times. But an incredible novel. Amazing prose. Basically invented a whole genre (or electrified it). Obviously reading this in 2022 I could’ve done without some of the slurs, but it didn’t ruin it for me. Made sense in context and character. Just made me like Phillip a little less.

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Subjects

  • Marlowe, Philip (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
  • Private investigators -- California -- Los Angeles -- Fiction.
  • Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.