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An edition of The Big Sleep (1939)

The Big Sleep

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  • ★★★★ 4.2 (18 ratings)
  • 253 Want to read
  • 13 Currently reading
  • 43 Have read

Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, which involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder

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Vintage Books
Language
English
Pages
216

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Fiction, Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, Women, General, Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled, Marlowe, philip (fictitious character), fiction, California, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Private investigators, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Children's fiction, Mystery and detective stories, English language, textbooks for foreign speakers, Mystery & detective

People

Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character)

Places

Los Angeles (Calif.), California, Los Angeles

Times

1930s

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The Big Sleep
2018, Penguin Books, Limited
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The Big Sleep
2014, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
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The Big Sleep
Dec 20, 2007, Oxford University Press, USA
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The big sleep
2004, Penguin
in English
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Chang mian bu xing
2002, Qun zhong chu ban she
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The Big Sleep
2002, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Alfred A. Knopf
E-book in English
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The Big Sleep
1992, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed.
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Le grand sommeil
1987, Gallimard
in French
Cover of: The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep
April 12, 1978, Vintage
in English
Cover of: The Big Sleep
The Big Sleep
1976, Vintage Books
in English

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.5/2
Library of Congress
PZ3.C3639 Bi9, PS3505.H3224 Bi9

The Physical Object

Pagination
216 p. ;
Number of pages
216

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL4882720M
ISBN 10
0394721365
LCCN
76011809
OCLC/WorldCat
2956371
LibraryThing
10137
Goodreads
2168822

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15400582W

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