I just finished reading Raymond Chandler's 1939 novel, The Big Sleep. The book is set in seedy Los Angeles during the Great Depression and follows a private detective, Philip Marlowe, as he is hired by a dying millionaire (who was once in the oil business) to investigate a blackmailer who is involved with one of his wild daughters. To give away any more plot details would be wrong on my part. The story is very complicated and was one of the first hard-boiled crime novels. So if you enjoy these types of crime and mystery stories, you should absolutely read this if you haven't already. In my opinion, this is one of the best works of the twentieth century.
The story has been adapted into a film twice, most notably in 1946 starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. It was directed by Howard Hawks.
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