Book
The Big Sleep
- Published
- 1939
- Genre
- Fiction
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Pages
- 231
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2052.The_Big_Sleep?ac=1&from_search=true
Reading measures
- Lexile
- 660L
This is the Code of the Private Eye as defined by Raymond Chandler in his 1944 essay 'The Simple Act of Murder.' Such a man was Philip Marlowe, private eye, an educated, heroic, streetwise, rugged individualist and the hero of Chandler's first novel, The Big Sleep. This work established Chandler as the master of the 'hard-boiled' detective novel, and his articulate and literary style of writing won him a large audience, which ranged from the man in the street to the most sophisticated intellectual.
Collections
Time Magazine 1923-2005
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780140108927
- ISBN-10
- 0140108920
Tags
Careers-DetectiveMysteryPITime Magazine Best Books