The Big Sleep (Penguin Essentials) -

Raymond Chandler

Penguin

2014

256 páginas

8h 32m

ISBN-13: 9780241970775

Hard-boiled detective fiction at its best: Raymond Chandler's best loved novel, The Big Sleep, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

'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.'

Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is indulging in some petty blackmail. A weary, old man, Sternwood just wants the problem to go away.
But Marlowe finds he has his work cut out just keeping Sternwood's wild, devil-may-care daughters out of trouble as they prowl LA's dirtiest and darkest streets.
And pretty soon, he's up to his neck in hoodlums and corpses . . .

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Me senti fluente lendo, mas aí vi que era só o nível 4 dos livros da Oxford.
Quem escreveu repete várias vezes as mesmas palavras, não é possível que não tenha palavras diferentes que signifiquem a mesma coisa no mesmo nível de aprendizagem... No final não entendi quem que matou quem.