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The Big Sleep", "Farewell My Lovely", "the High Window" (Everyman's Library classics)
The Big Sleep Farewell My Lovely the High Window - Everyman's Library classics Author:Raymond Chandler (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) — 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 t... more »akes 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.« less