must save her people--even if she cannot save herself

someone even more worried about getting caught

He loves God with all his heart

He killed hundreds and earned his nickname because he was said to cut out and eat his victims’ livers

The Big Sleep Fiction must save her people--even ifLos 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. The Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler's first novel featuring