The Big Sleep
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The Big Sleep
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Narrated by:
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Scott Brick
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
'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 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.
The Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler's first novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe.
'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times
'Chandler grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph
'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times
'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess
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- Bonita
- 19-03-2024
Writing and Reading at its Best!
The quality of the writing and the outstanding reading of the novel made this audiobook a complete pleasure.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-12-2023
The inimitable, Raymond Chandler
This is a highly enjoyable listen. The sleek, fast, narrative driven structure of the classic hard boiled crime stories really lend themselves to the audiobook format. This story, and the subsequent stories in the series are narrated by the highly talented, Scott Brick. Brick wonderfully captures the tone of Raymond Chandler’s mainstay character, Philip Marlowe. The outwardly tough, morally rigid, inwardly contemplative, hard boiled private detective… With a soft side for trouble
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