The Big Sleep and Other Novels (Penguin Modern Classics)

Title In This Collection:-The Big Sleep: A Philip Marlowe MysteryThe Long Good-byeFarewellMy LovelyThe Big Sleep: A Philip Marlowe Mystery Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood''''s two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA''''s seedy backstreets, Marlowe''''s got his work cut out. The Long Good-byeDown-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. He''''s willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Farewell, My Lovely A warm day on Central Avenue, and Philip Marlowe''''s hunch about the man beside him is as vague as the heat waves that dance above the sidewalk. Moose Malloy stands six five and one-half and weighs two hundred and sixty-four pounds. After eight years in the pen, he wants little Velma back, and no cops or mobsters are ready to stand in his way.