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The novel takes us to the United States during the Great Depression. An old, wealthy, and wheelchair-bound General Sternwood hires a detective to investigate a blackmail case involving one of his two desperate daughters. Philip Marlowe gets down to business and descends into the neon-lit hell of Los Angeles, where the most prevalent sins of the mid-twentieth century reign: gambling, alcoholism, murder, smuggling, corruption, drug addiction, racketeering, debauchery, blackmail. "Deep Sleep" is a classic of the excellent detective and noir genre.

This is Raymond Chandler's debut novel, in which the author first introduces us to Philip Marlowe, a character who became the quintessence of the urban private detective and the Prometheus of the American myth.