Hard-boiled detective fiction at its best- Raymond Chandler's best loved novel published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.
'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.'
Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is indulging in some petty blackmail. A weary, old man, Sternwood just wants the problem to go away. But Marlowe finds he has his work cut out just keeping Sternwood's wild, devil-may-care daughters out of trouble as they prowl LA's dirtiest and darkest streets. And pretty soon, he's up to his neck in hoodlums and corpses . . .
Product code: 9780241970775
| ISBN |
9780241970775 |
| Series |
Penguin Essentials |
| Publisher |
Penguin Books Ltd |
| Dimensions (HxWxD in mm) |
H181xW111xS16 |
| No. Of Pages |
256 |
| On Sale Date |
01/01/2000 |