The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep was Raymond Chandler’s first novel, and has gone on to earn it’s reputation as one of the most influential novels ever written. The basis for countless movies and spin-offs, most famously The Big Lebowski, Set in early 1930’s Los Angeles, The Big Sleep introduces the figure of Philip Marlowe, a hard drinking detective who stumbles through a maze of subterfuge involving blackmailers, pornographers, and bootleggers