The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
Recommended by Simon Brett, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #3 in Pulp Fiction, Ranked #11 in Detective — see more rankings.
This is the Code of the Private Eye as defined by Raymond Chandler in his 1944 essay 'The Simple Act of Murder.' Such a man was Philip Marlowe, private eye, an educated, heroic, streetwise, rugged individualist and the hero of Chandler's first novel, The Big Sleep. This work established Chandler as the master of the 'hard-boiled' detective novel, and his articulate... more
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Simon Brett I think the writing is just so beautiful. Raymond Chandler’s hopeless at plots, as we know. He said himself, if he couldn’t think of what to do, he brought in a man with a gun. But the language… I remember some years ago an American publisher got the rights to do a book called Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe and got various contemporary crime writers to write a Philip Marlowe story. I was asked to do one – it was great fun. I was very excited, because it meant rereading all the books again. I found I could do the wisecracks, but I couldn’t do them as economically as he could. I think that’s... (Source)
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1) is ranked in the following categories:
- #13 in California
- #95 in Corruption
- #27 in Crime
- #13 in Crime Fiction
- #25 in Crime Mystery
- #89 in Crime Thriller
- #31 in Fiction Crime
- #51 in Lake
- #52 in Mystery
- #20 in Mystery Crime
- #75 in Sleep
- #83 in Thriller Crime
- #76 in Time
- #28 in Video
- #99 in Whodunnit
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