The Big Sleep

A book, The Big Sleep of Raymond Chandler is a great specimen of the noir detective novel that introduces the protagonist, Philip Marlowe. Arriving in 1930s Southern California hired to investigate an extortion scandal for a wealthy family of oil-producer origins, Marlowe finds himself enmeshed into a rat’s nest of treachery, criminality, and multiple murder. Riveting characters and gripping narrative, they encapsulate the book as a crime drama of moral turpitude in a quippy prose.