The Big Sleep (A Philip Marlowe Mystery) Raymond Chandler (Paperback) Penguin

THE BIG SLEEP by Raymond Chandler (Book 1 of the Philip Marlow Mystery series)

'Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.'

Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problems go away. But 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....

First published in 1939, this Penguin paperback published in 2005