The Big Sleep (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Raymond Chandler
- First Published: 1939
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Detective and mystery
- Time of Work: 1930’s
- Setting: Los Angeles
- Principal Characters: Philip Marlowe, General Guy Sternwood, Vivian Sternwood (Mrs. Regan), Carmen Sternwood, Eddie Mars, Arthur Geiger, Bernie Ohls, Canino
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Sex or sexuality, Murder or homicide, 1930’s, California, Los Angeles, West, U.S., Blackmail, Detectives, Corruption, Private investigators, Pornography
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA
The Story:
Set among the dissolute rich, seedy hustlers, and the underworld of Los Angeles in the 1930’s, The Big Sleep is Philip Marlowe’s story of pornography, blackmail, and murder. A tough, cynical, independent, thirty-three-year-old private detective, Marlowe, recommended by his friend, Assistant District Attorney Bernie Ohls, agreed to interview wealthy General Guy Sternwood at Sternwood’s lush West Hollywood estate.
Old and dying, Sternwood hoped to salvage the last remnants of family pride nearly destroyed by his two immoral daughters. Sternwood...
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