The Big Sleep: Penguin Essentials (Penguin Essentials, 42)

When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion Kidnapping pornography seduction and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in Chandler writes like a slumming angel and invests the sunblinded streets of Los Angelos with a romantic presence Ross Macdonald From the Trade Paperback edition