The Big Sleep & Farewell My Lovely (Philip Marlowe #1-2) by Raymond Chandler [HARDCOVER OMNIBUS] 1995 • The Modern Library

The Big Sleep & Farewell My Lovely by Raymond Chandler [PHILIP MARLOWE #1-2]

HARDCOVER OMNIBUS [1995] THE MODERN LIBRARY

Modern Library collectible re-issue of the classic Omnibus collecting the first Two Marlowe novels.

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.

Shelf wear to dust jacket.  Book itself looks and reads good as new.  DJ now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.

These two classic novels featuring private eye Philip Marlowe made Raymond Chandler's name synonymous with America's hard-boiled school of crime fiction.   The Big Sleep was an instant success when first published in 1939.  It centers around a paralyzed California millionaire with two psychopathic daughters; he involves Marlowe in a case of blackmail that turns into murder.

Farewell My Lovely , which Chandler regarded as his finest work, came out the following year.  It has Marlowe dealing with the Los Angeles gambling circuit, a murder he stumbles upon, and three very beautiful but potentially deadly women.
"Chandler writes like a slumming angel and invests the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence," said Ross Macdonald.