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| title = The Big Sleep
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| author = Raymond Chandler
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| genre = [[Hardboiled Detective]]
| publication date = 1939
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{{quote|''What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that.''}}
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The convoluted plot follows the investigation by [[Hardboiled Detective]] Philip Marlowe into the gambling debts of young dilettante Carmen Sternwood at the behest of her father, an old, wheelchair-bound
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* [[Big Sleep]]
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* [[Affably Evil]]: Eddie Mars.
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[[Category:Crime Fiction]]
▲[[Category:The Great Depression]]
[[Category:Detective Literature]]
[[Category:The Great Depression]]
[[Category:Literature of the 1930s]]
[[Category:Mystery Literature]]
▲[[Category:Literature]]
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