The Big Sleep

  • The Big Sleep
    The Big Sleep
    By David Thomson

    The Big Sleep: Marlowe and Vivian practising kissing; General Sternwood shivering in a hothouse full of orchids; a screenplay, co-written by Faulkner, famously mysterious and difficult to solve.

  • The Big Sleep: And, Farewell, My Lovely
    The Big Sleep: And, Farewell, My Lovely
    By Raymond Chandler

    Two early mystery novels--"The Big Sleep" and "Farewell, My Lovely"--introduce the world of harboiled 1930s private detective Philip Marlow.

  • The Big Sleep: Farewell, My Lovely ; The High Window
    The Big Sleep: Farewell, My Lovely ; The High Window
    By Raymond Chandler

    Three early mystery novels--The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, and The High Window--introduce the world of harboiled 1930s private detective Philip Marlow, in an omnibus edition. 15,000 first printing.

  • The Big Sleep
    The Big Sleep
    By Raymond Chandler

    The title is a euphemism for death; the final pages of the book refer to a rumination about "sleeping the big sleep". In 1999, the book was voted 96th of Le Monde and 's "100 Books of the Century".

  • The Big Sleep: Dreamwalkers
    The Big Sleep: Dreamwalkers
    By Meaghan Gray

    Closer and closer it pulsed and, as the new light came closer, the old light grew brighter. Finally, they touched. Thousands of man-shaped lights spilled forth, dancing and swaying with a manic glee. The pulsing light flashed again and ...

  • The Big Sleep
    The Big Sleep
    By David Thomson

    The Big Sleep: Marlowe and Vivian practising kissing; General Sternwood shivering in a hothouse full of orchids; a screenplay, co-written by Faulkner, famously mysterious and difficult to solve.

  • The Big Sleep: Large Print
    The Big Sleep: Large Print
    By Raymond Chandler

    The Big Sleep introduces one of the finest crime detectives in literary history, Philip Marlowe.

  • The Big Sleep

    A collection of found photographs of people in slumber

  • The Big Sleep
    The Big Sleep
    By Raymond Chandler

    The renowned novel from the crime fiction master, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe. • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.

  • The Big Sleep
    The Big Sleep
    By Raymond Chandler

    It Is One In A Series Of Six Luxury Leather-Bound Titles. Raymond Chandler Created The Fast Talking, Trouble Seeking Californian Private Eye Philip Marlowe For His First Great Novel The Big Sleep In 1939.

  • The Big Sleep: And Other poems.
    The Big Sleep: And Other poems.
    By Terry Collett

    ... Of the church, watching, With a smirk over His sickening face, But Monica knew He was there, she could Smell him in the air, Could hear his deep breath, She knew his end now, Knew and planned his death. Monica'S Revenge.

  • The Big Sleep: Large Print
    The Big Sleep: Large Print
    By Raymond Chandler

    The Big Sleep introduces one of the finest crime detectives in literary history, Philip Marlowe.

  • The Big Sleep: "Le Grand sommeil" de Howard Hawks
    The Big Sleep: "Le Grand sommeil" de Howard Hawks
    By Jean-Michel Durafour

    The Big Sleep: "Le Grand sommeil" de Howard Hawks

  • The Big Sleep
    The Big Sleep
    By Raymond Chandler

    THE FIRST NOVEL FEATURING LACONIC PI PHILIP MARLOWE, THE STORY CONTINUES IN FAREWELL, MY LOVELY 'Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph 'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards ...