{"product_id":"the-big-sleep-9780241980637","title":"The Big Sleep","description":"\u003cp\u003eI was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLos Angeles Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is blackmailing him. A broken, weary old man, Sternwood just wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. However, with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out. And that's before he stumbles over the first corpse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler's first novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Chandler grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDiscover the newest addition to the inimitable Philip Marlowe series - Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne - out 6 September 2018 in hardback and ebook from Hogarth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42973738041510,"sku":"9780241980637","price":17.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/9780241980637_1.jpg?v=1656048866","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/the-big-sleep-9780241980637","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}