Three Novels: The Big Sleep; Farewell, my Lovely; the Long Good-Bye - Softcover

In "The Big Sleep" Philip Marlowe becomes embroiled in the affairs of the ultra-rich Sternwood family. Moose Molly, big as a beer truck, is looking for Velma in "Farewell My Lovely". In "The Long Good-Bye" Marlowe makes friends with Terry Lennox, the politest drunk he has ever met.

Raymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, but moved to England with his family when he was twelve, where 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, when he was fifty, by his first novel, The Big Sleep. Chandler died in 1959, having established himself as the finest crime writer in America.