The Big Sleep

Description:

Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, which involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder

subjects: Fiction,  Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character),  Private investigators,  Detective and mystery stories,  Women,  General,  Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled,  Marlowe, philip (fictitious character), fiction,  California, fiction,  Los angeles (calif.), fiction,  Private investigators, fiction,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  Children's fiction,  Mystery and detective stories,  English language, textbooks for foreign speakers,  Mystery & detective

People: Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character)

Places: Los Angeles (Calif.),  California,  Los Angeles

Times: 1930s