The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window: Volume 1

di Raymond Chandler (Autore)

Everyman, 2002

Raymond Chandler’s first three novels, published here in one volume, established his reputation as an unsurpassed master of hard-boiled detective fiction. The Big Sleep, Chandler’s first novel, introduces Philip Marlowe, a private detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s, as he takes on a case involving a paralysed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail and murder. In Farewell, My Lovely, Marlowe deals with the gambling circuit, a murder he stumbles upon, and three very beautiful but potentially deadly women. In The High Window, Marlowe searches the California underworld for a priceless gold coin and finds himself deep in the tangled affairs of a dead coin collector. In all three novels, Chandler’s hard-edged prose, colourful characters, vivid vernacular, and, above all, his enigmatic loner of a hero, establish his enduring claim to the heights of his chosen genre.

• Autore: Raymond Chandler
• Editore: Everyman
• Collana: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
• Anno: 2002
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 696 p.
• Dimensioni: 211 x 135 mm
• Peso: 714 gr.
• EAN: 9781857152555

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