Book discussion: The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
February 27 (Wednesday), 6PM SL in the Gazebo at Mystery Manor
Part of the Waiting for the Other Gumshoe to Drop series
Voice chat will be used so have your headsets handy if you want to talk. We will repeat questions and comments submitted by text.

The Big Sleep is the first of Raymond Chandler’s seven Philip Marlowe novels. It holds an important place in the hardboiled detective genre. It has set the standard for style and technique that persists up to today. Marlowe is a man with a code of ethics that he expresses rather forcefully in this book. His ethics are tested many times in the course of The Big Sleep as Marlowe faces corruption at all levels of society in 1930s Los Angeles. A seemingly simple case of blackmail moves to pornography and murder.

Please join us for this discussion.

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