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Chandler only produced seven novels during his life, but also wrote many short stories and some screenplays, the latter including hitchcocks strangers on a train in 1951. A dying millionaire hires private eye philip marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. It has been adapted for film twice, in 1946 and again in 1978. We revisit raymond chandler s genredefining hardboiled story the big sleep as part of classics in september prefaced by the famous atlantic monthly essay of the same name, in which he argues the virtues of the hardboiled detective novel, this collection mostly dra. View test prep the big sleep by raymond chandler from cine 35 at university of iowa. Reviews in 1939 were wary and unenthusiastic, however, and. The big sleep by raymond chandler the big sleep by raymond.
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