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| Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
| Auflage | 2014 |
| Seiten | 256 |
| Format | 10,9 x 18,1 x 1,3 cm |
| A Format | |
| Gewicht | 148 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Penguin Essentials 42 |
| ISBN-10 | 0241970776 |
| EAN | 9780241970775 |
| Bestell-Nr | 24197077EA |
Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is indulging in some petty blackmail. A weary, old man, Sternwood just wants the problem to go away. But Marlowe finds he has his work cut out just keeping Sternwood's wild, devil-may-care daughters out of trouble as they prowl LA's dirtiest and darkest streets.
Hard-boiled detective fiction at its best: Raymond Chandler's best loved novel, The Big Sleep, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
'I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.'
Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is indulging in some petty blackmail. A weary, old man, Sternwood just wants the problem to go away. But Marlowe finds he has his work cut out just keeping Sternwood's wild, devil-may-care daughters out of trouble as they prowl LA's dirtiest and darkest streets. And pretty soon, he's up to his neck in hoodlums and corpses . . .
Rezension:
Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious Robert B. Parker The New York Times Book Review
