Ahhh.... The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler - one of my favorite books. Rereading it was so much fun. This is the first book in the Phillip Marlowe series and it is the defining classic of the hard boiled detective genre. Chandler describes things like no one else... here's a link to some of the best lines from the book https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1222673-the-big-sleep. There are some classic lines in there...The plot involves Marlowe investigating a blackmail case which quickly escalates to multiple murder cases involving a whole bunch of criminals all around Los Angeles. What I hadn't noticed the first time I had read it is that one of the murders is actually never solved and Marlowe seems to forget all about it by the end. Apparently Chandler was asked about this when they were preparing the script for the movie and Chandler hadn't realized his mistake! So who killed the chauffeur? We'll never know. It is the kind of book where the details of the plot aren't the most important thing to keep track of...
This book stays in my top 50 of all time... I highly recommend it even if you really aren't all that into mystery books. A+.
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