{"product_id":"chandler-big-sleep","title":"The Big Sleep","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is blackmailing him. A broken, weary old man, Sternwood just wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. However, with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out. And that's before he stumbles over the first corpse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Big Sleep\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e is Raymond Chandler's first novel featuring iconic PI Philip Marlowe.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' - \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Chandler grips the mind from the first sentence' - \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' - \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' - \u003c\/em\u003eAnthony Burgess\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53250241036675,"sku":"9780241985038N","price":5.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/98b0f597-1e4e-4739-ac31-c96a3fd85eec.jpg?v=1727779408","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/chandler-big-sleep","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}