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Book Review of The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, Bk 1)

The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, Bk 1)
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This is one of the grand daddys of the murder mystery. raymond Chandler only did about six of them. This the tough detective against the bad guys and at least one trecherous woman. It's great reading. The stylized writing is probably a little too simple for some readers, but it emerged in the 30's...and carried us up to Papa Hemingway and Mickey Spillane. Oh, by the way, it's a good story.