The Big Sleep: Otto Penzler's 1st Edition Library Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Big Sleep: Otto Penzler's 1st Edition Library Book

"His thin, claw-like hands were folded loosely on the rug, purple-nailed. A few locks of dry white hair clung to his scalp, like wild flowers fighting for life on a bare rock." Published in 1939, when Raymond Chandler was 50, this is the first of the Philip Marlowe novels. Its bursts of sex, violence, and explosively direct prose changed detective fiction forever. "She was trouble. She was tall and rangy and strong-looking. Her hair was black and wiry and parted in the middle. She had a good mouth and a good chin. There was a sulky droop to her lips and the lower lip was full."Read More

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  • Product Description

    When a case of blackmail involving a California millionaire leads to murder, the inimitable Philip Marlowe is stirred into action, in a facsimile first edition of the classic mystery.

  • 1883402166
  • 9781883402167
  • Raymond Chandler
  • 1 November 1993
  • Prentice Hall & IBD
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • Reissue
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