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RAYMOND CHANDLER Three Novels
The Big Sleep • Farewell, Mj Lovely • The Long Good-Bye
'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character, Philip Marlowe, as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' — Anthony Burgess
This omnibus edition contains three of Chandler's most famous novels. In The Big Sleep Philip Marlowe becomes embroiled in the affairs of the ultra-rich Sternwood family. The old man is being blackmailed, and as Marlowe tries to find out who is behind it he is diverted by a trail of corpses
Moose Molloy, big as a beer truck, is looking for Velma in Farewell, Mj Lovely. Eight years ago she was a warbler in a nightclub. Business is slack, so Marlowe has the time and the curiosity to look for her too, until it becomes more than just a simple case of finding a missing person.
In The Long Good-Eye Marlowe makes friends with Terry Lennox, the politest drunk he has ever met. He doesn't know why he likes him — whatever it...
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Fülszöveg
I .
PENGUIN TWENTIETH - CENTURY CLASSICS K
i', IS
RAYMOND CHANDLER Three Novels
The Big Sleep • Farewell, Mj Lovely • The Long Good-Bye
'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character, Philip Marlowe, as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' — Anthony Burgess
This omnibus edition contains three of Chandler's most famous novels. In The Big Sleep Philip Marlowe becomes embroiled in the affairs of the ultra-rich Sternwood family. The old man is being blackmailed, and as Marlowe tries to find out who is behind it he is diverted by a trail of corpses
Moose Molloy, big as a beer truck, is looking for Velma in Farewell, Mj Lovely. Eight years ago she was a warbler in a nightclub. Business is slack, so Marlowe has the time and the curiosity to look for her too, until it becomes more than just a simple case of finding a missing person.
In The Long Good-Eye Marlowe makes friends with Terry Lennox, the politest drunk he has ever met. He doesn't know why he likes him — whatever it is, he brings him plenty of trouble. But then that's Marlowe's Hne of business.
'The Chandler-Marlowe prose is a highly charged blend of laconic wit and imagistic poetry set to breakneck rhythms' — Ross MacDonald
'His books should be read and judged, not as escape literature, but as works of art' — W. H. Auden
Cover Photograph: UPI/Bettmann Newsphotos, New York
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