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Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and moved to England with his family when he was twelve. He attended Dulwich College, Alma Mater to some of the twentieth century's most renowned writers. Returning to America in 1912, he settled in California, worked in a number of jobs, and later married. It was during the Depression era that he seriously turned his hand to writing and his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six years later by his first novel. The Big Sleep introduced the world to Philip Marlowe, the often imitated but never-bettered hard-boiled private investigator. It is in Marlowe's long shadow that every fictional detective must stand - and under the influence of Raymond Chandler's addictive prose that every crime author must write.
This is the real thing! For a penny under a tenner you not only get The Big Sleep, but also Farewell, My Lovely and The Long Good-Bye, beautifully packaged together. These are the novels that started the PI tradition that is still being enthusiastically written today, and no crime fan should be without a complete set of Chandler on their shelves. (Kirkus UK)
