The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window Author Surname:Chandler was shot in the line

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'   Stories of Crime & Detection Volume Four contains a novel and three short stories: They Can't Hang Me Lucius Marplay has spent the past twenty years in an asylum

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The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window Author Surname:Chandler was shot in the lineRaymond Chandler's first three novels, published here in one volume, established his reputation as an unsurpassed master of hard boiled detective fiction. The Big Sleep, Chandler's first novel, introduces Philip Marlowe, a private detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s, as he takes on a case involving a paralysed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail and murder. In Farewell, My Lovely, Marlowe deals with