The Big Sleep The Big Sleep The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first to feature the detective Philip Marlowe. It has been adapted for film twice, in 1946 and again in 1978. The story is set in Los Angeles. The story is noted for its complexity, with characters double-crossing one another and secrets being exposed throughout the narrative. The title is a euphemism for death; it refers to a rumination about "sleeping the big sleep" in the final pages of the book. In 1999, the book was voted 96th of "Le Monde"s "100 Books of the
The Long Goodbye (novel) Long Good Friday" (1980), an episode of "" entitled "The Big Goodbye" (1988), and Frank Miller's graphic novel "The Hard Goodbye" (1991–92), the first volume in the "Sin City" series. In music, crime novelist Matt Rees's band Poisonville, which is named after the fictitious location of the Dashiell Hammett novel "Red Harvest", released a song about "The Long Goodbye" on its first album. Rees described the novel as "a creepier book than people think." The Long Goodbye (novel) The Long Goodbye is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1953, his sixth novel featuring the private investigator Philip Marlowe. Some