The Big Sleep
By Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler’s first full length book featuring iconic detective Phillip Marlowe that is consistently ranked among the best of crime fiction.
Phillip Marlowe is summoned to the home of General Sternwood for a blackmail attempt against his youngest daughter, Carmen by a bookstore owner named Geiger. Did I say there were pictures involved? Marlowe is taken with another daughter, Vivian Rutledge whose husband has mysterious disappeared. Geiger is murdered and Marlowe is swept into Vivian's criminal acquaintances in pursuit of the truth.
