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The Big Sleep

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Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, which involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder

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Raymond Chandler

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Fiction English language, textbooks for foreign speakers children's fiction General Women Fiction, mystery & detective, general Detective and mystery stories Private investigators, fiction Mystery and detective stories Private investigators mystery & detective California, fiction Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled Los angeles (calif.), fiction Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character) Marlowe, philip (fictitious character), fiction

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