The Big Sleep & Farewell My Lovely
by Raymond Chandler
From the Back Cover
"Chandler did not write about crime, or detection--as he insisted he did not. He wrote about the corruption of the human spirit, using Philip Marlowe as his disapproving angel, and he knew about it, down to the marrow."
--George V. Higgins
About the Author
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