EBOOK Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely

These two classic novels featuring private eye Philip Marlowe made Raymond Chandler's name synonymous with America's hard-boiled school of crime fiction.The Big Sleep was an instant success when first published in 1939.It centers around a paralyzed California millionaire with two psychopathic daughters; he involves Marlowe in a case of blackmail that turns into murder.Farewell My Lovely, which Chandler regarded as his finest work, came out the following year.It has Marlowe dealing with the Los Angeles gambling circuit, a murder he stumbles upon, and three very beautiful but potentially deadly women.Chandler writes like a slumming angel and invests the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence, said Ross Macdonald.And George V. Higgins wrote:Chandler is fun to read.He's as bleak as tundra, and his dirtbag characters far outnumber his stellar citizens, but Philip Marlowe is a laconic tour guide through a zoo of truly interesting animals.From the Hardcover edition.