Big Sleep eBook

Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888. At the age of eight, he moved with his mother to England, returning to the United States in 1912. A veteran of the First World War, he settled in Los Angeles after the armistice, where he worked as an administrator in oil companies. At the age of 44, in 1932, he lost his job in the wake of the Great Depression and, inspired by reading the magazine Black MaskHe decided to write his first crime story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot," which was published in that magazine in 1933. On the Edge of the AbyssHis debut novel, published in 1939, features the legendary private detective Philip Marlowe, who also became the hero of the other six books he published during his lifetime, among which stand out... The Lady of the Lake (1943) and The Immense Farewell (1953). Considered one of the founders of the school hard-boiled Along with Dashiell Hammett, Chandler became a leading figure in realistic crime fiction, her works were repeatedly adapted for film, and her writing continues to influence the conventions of the genre to this day. She died on March 26, 1959, in La Jolla, California.