{"product_id":"big-sleep","title":"Big Sleep","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e''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.''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is blackmailing him. A broken, weary old man, Sternwood just wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. However, with Sternwood''s two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA''s seedy backstreets, Marlowe''s got his work cut out. And that''s before he stumbles over the first corpse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Big Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e is Raymond Chandler''s first novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain'' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Chandler grips the mind from the first sentence''  \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain''  \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes''  Anthony Burgess\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscover the newest addition to the inimitable Philip Marlowe series - \u003ci\u003eOnly to Sleep \u003c\/i\u003eby Lawrence Osborne - out 6 September 2018 in hardback and ebook from Hogarth.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57303016538494,"sku":"NW9780241956281","price":10.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780241956281.jpg?v=1778512866","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/big-sleep","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}