The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely Humanities/Religion/K-12 It was a cover story

It was a cover story

And Read certainly knew how to spin a yarn

he spends long hours listening at doors and peering through cracks

an elfin species descended from man

and adventures never before published in book form

The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely Humanities/Religion/K-12 It was a cover storyTwo great novels featuring hard boiled Californian detective Philip Marlowe Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family and an attendant cast of colourful underworld figures is the background to a story reflecting all the tarnished glitter of the great American Dream. The hard boiled detective's iconic