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The Big Sleep

"His thin, claw-like hands were folded loosely on the rug, purple-nailed. A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wild flowers fighting for life on a bare rock." Published in 1939, when Raymond Chandler was 50, this is the first of the Philip Marlowe novels. Its bursts of sex, violence, and explosively direct prose changed detective fiction forever.


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Description: The epitome of the hard- boiled detective novel. But it's not hokey, maybe because it...


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Description: The first novel featuring hardboiled detective Philip Marlowe, in which he is called in to...


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Description: "His thin, claw-like hands were folded loosely on the rug, purple-nailed. A few locks...


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Description: Chandler's first novel, and the first one of his that I ever read. It's been years,...


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