The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window

Volume 1

Raymond Chandler author Diane Johnson editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Everyman

Published:26th Sep '02

Should be back in stock very soon

The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window cover

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.

ISBN: 9781857152555

Dimensions: 211mm x 135mm x 36mm

Weight: 714g

696 pages