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The big sleep ; Farewell, my lovely ; The high window / Raymond Chandler ; with an introduction by Diane Johnson.
Van Pelt Library PS3505.H3224 A6 2002b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959
- Series:
- Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 255.
- Everyman's library ; 255
- Standardized Title:
- Novels. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Detective and mystery stories, American.
- Marlowe, Philip (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Marlowe, Philip.
- Marlowe, Philip (Fictitious character).
- Private investigators--California--Los Angeles--Fiction.
- Private investigators.
- California--Los Angeles.
- Los Angeles (Calif.)--Fiction.
- Los Angeles (Calif.).
- Genre:
- Detective and mystery stories, American.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 656 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2002.
- Summary:
- 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 paralyzed 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, colorful characters, vivid vernacular, and, above all, his enigmatic loner of a hero, enduringly establish his claim not only to the heights of his chosen genre but to the pantheon of literary art.
- Contents:
- The big sleep
- Farewell, my lovely
- The high window.
- Notes:
- "A Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xviii-xix).
- Contains:
- Big sleep.
- Farewell, my lovely.
- High window.
- ISBN:
- 0375415017
- OCLC:
- 50799609
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