If you’re a fan of the detective genre than you may already know about Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep. If not, and a classic detective story is what you’re after, then this could be what you’ve been looking for. The novel follows a Los Angeles private investigator, Phillip Marlowe, as he searches to discover who is blackmailing the dying General Sternwood and his two wild daughters, whose lives are far from sheltered.
What Chandler brings to the table is a mixture of detective work, guns, drugs, women and gambling which sounds like all the action you would want in a book; except that much of the excitement is lost through Marlowe’s too-cool attitude.
For anyone who f nds themselves interested in the film noir style of detection this book is definitely
for you, but be warned – this is no modern day CSI-styled story, but is more about the grunt work of the 1940s PI.
Jonni Manning
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