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| title = The Big Sleep |
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| author = Raymond Chandler |
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| genre = [[Hardboiled Detective]] |
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| 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.''}} |
{{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 Big Sleep''''' is a 1939 novel by [[Raymond Chandler]] that was made into [[The Big Sleep (film)|a film by Howard Hawks]] in 1946. Both the original novel and the movie are considered classics. |
'''''The Big Sleep''''' is a 1939 novel by [[Raymond Chandler]] that was made into [[The Big Sleep (film)|a film by Howard Hawks]] in 1946. Both the original novel and the movie are considered classics. |
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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 |
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 millionaire. However, Carmen's older sister, Vivian Regan, claims that the investigation is really about finding what happened to her husband Sean Regan, who has mysteriously disappeared. |
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