Arresting reads by great crime writers
Raymond Chandler
Recommended: 'The Big Sleep' (1939)
In the seven major novels he wrote, Chandler turned the trashy, pulp-fiction detective story into something highly sophisticated. 'The Big Sleep' is the first novel to feature detective Philip Marlowe. The story is infamously complex, with many characters all double-crossing and triple-crossing each other.
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