The Big Sleep

by raymond chandler | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0140108920 Global Overview for this book
Registered by lucycat of Hull, East Yorkshire United Kingdom on 4/4/2003
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Journal Entry 1 by lucycat from Hull, East Yorkshire United Kingdom on Friday, April 4, 2003
From the back cover:

'"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."

The four million dollars is General Sternwood, a paralysed old man, already two-thirds dead. He has two beautiful daughters - one a gambler, the other a degenerate - and an elusive adventurer as a son-in-law. The General is being blackmailed and Marlowe's assignment is to get the blackmailer off his back. As it turns out there's a lot more at stake.'


Picked up for Gameface in CA, who many moons ago expressed an interest in reading a Raymond Chandler one day...so if you're going to do it, you may as well start at the beginning, right?

I haven't read this one yet, but still have a copy as Jmg49 in Ontario was good enough to send me his...so Steve, let me know when you've read it and we can compare notes. :O)

If it's anything as like as good as 'Farewell, My Lovely', though, I think we may be in for a treat...

Update 17/5/03

I guess this still hasn't reached you yet, but I finished reading the copy John sent me today...here's a link to that journal entry.

Journal Entry 2 by gameface from Huntington Beach, California USA on Friday, April 1, 2005
You won't believe that this JUST came in the mail today!!! It's been travelling across the pond, for, well...just about 2 years! Somebody in the Post must have been rowing it across, and taken several side trips to boot!
Thanks Lucycat!
I can't believe that this took so long to get here!!!

Released 18 yrs ago (4/11/2005 UTC) at Beach Bike Trail - at 17th Street in Huntington Beach, California USA

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