{"product_id":"big-sleep-other-novels","title":"Big Sleep \u0026 Other Novels","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the BBC''s ''100 Novels That Shaped Our World''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since'' Paul Auster, author of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaymond Chandler was America''s preeminent writer of detective fiction, and this edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Big Sleep and Other Novels\u003c\/i\u003e collects three of the best novels to feature his hard-drinking, philosophising PI, Philip Marlowe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel \u003ci\u003eThe Big Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e in 1939. Often imitated but never bettered, it is in Marlowe''s long shadow that every fictional detective must stand - and under the influence of Raymond Chandler''s addictive prose that every crime author must write. Marlowe''s entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colourful underworld figures - is the background to a story reflecting all the tarnished glitter of the great American Dream. The hard-boiled detective''s iconic image burns just as brightly in \u003ci\u003eFarewell My Lovely\u003c\/i\u003e, on the trail of a missing nightclub crooner. And the inimitable Marlowe is able to prove that trouble really is his business in Raymond Chandler''s brilliant epitaph, \u003ci\u003eThe Long Goodbye\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards that others still try to attain''\u003ci\u003e Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angelos with a romantic presence'' Ross Macdonald, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Drowning Pool\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57310275830142,"sku":"NW9780141182612","price":11.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141182612.jpg?v=1778234839","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/big-sleep-other-novels","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}