Our next meeting will be on Thursday 6th Jan @ 6 p.m. and we'll be discussing 'The Big Sleep' by Raymond Chandler. Chandler was the creator of the original Private Eye, and ’The Big Sleep’ is his first novel. It was published in 1939, and introduces Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. Marlowe becomes known for helping damsels in distress, and for his deadpan humour. ’The Big Sleep’ starts out as a fairly straightforward blackmail case for Marlowe, but develops into a labyrinth of murder and sleaze in downtown Los Angeles.
