Raymond Chandler

Broschiertes Buch

The Big Sleep

An Philip Marlowe Mystery

Beschreibung

PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away.

Autor

Raymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, but moved to England with his family when he was twelve, where he attended Dulwich College, alma mater to some of the twentieth century's most renowned writers. Returning to America in 1912, he settled in California, worked in a number of jobs, and later married. It was during the Depression era that he seriously turned his hand to writing, and his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six years later, when he was fifty, by his first novel, The Big Sleep. Chandler died in 1959, having established himself as the finest crime writer in America.

Produktdetails

• Phillip Marlowe
• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 453635
• New ed
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 128mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 186g
• ISBN-13: 9780241956281
• ISBN-10: 0241956285
• Artikelnr.: 33702794