The Big Sleep-长眠不醒

作者：Raymond Chandler

书名：The Big Sleep《长眠不醒》

中文简介：《长眠不醒》（英语：The Big Sleep）是雷蒙·钱德勒1939年的小说，曾二度（1946年、1978年）被改编为电影。这是首本以菲利普·马罗（Philip Marlowe）为主角的小说，并被认为是钱德勒最杰出的作品之一，并被认为是冷硬派（hard boiled）的侦探小说代表作品。故事剧情错综复杂，许多角色在不同的故事里皆有联系。

英文简介：This is the Code of the Private Eye as defined by Raymond Chandler in his 1944 essay 'The Simple Act of Murder.' Such a man was Philip Marlowe, private eye, an educated, heroic, streetwise, rugged individualist and the hero of Chandler's first novel, The Big Sleep. This work established Chandler as the master of the 'hard-boiled' detective novel, and his articulate and literary style of writing won him a large audience, which ranged from the man in the street to the most sophisticated intellectual.