Crime and Thriller Book Club 14/09: The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN 13: 9780241956281
Whodunnit? Let's find out together! Our Crime and Thriller Book Club is built for readers who love the thrill of a good chase. Whether you're a lifelong fan of golden-age whodunnits or looking to dive into the genre for the first time, our goal is to create a welcoming, lively space to share theories, analyse motives, and celebrate great storytelling. Each month, we'll gather in person to dissect everything from the atmospheric pacing of classic thrillers to the complex puzzles of modern murder mysteries.
In September, we will be discussing The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler: a classic noir that follows a cynical private investigator, Philip Marlowe.
Date:
Monday 14th of September
Venue:
Max Minerva's, 47 Henleaze Road, BS9 4JU
Time:
Doors at 18:30. Discussion at 18:45. Finish at 19:45.
Tickets:
Attendance for the book club is free, but if you could register your place through the website, it helps us to gauge numbers.
If you would like to buy a copy of the book, you can order it through us and show up on the night.
ABOUT THE BIG SLEEP
Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family.
Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer, and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. But with Sternwood's two wild, devil-may-care daughters prowling LA's seedy backstreets, Marlowe's got his work cut out, and that's before he stumbles over the first corpse...
The Big Sleep is Raymond Chandler's first novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe.
ABOUT RAYMOND CHANDLER
Raymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, but moved to England with his family when he was twelve, where he attended Dulwich College, alma mater to some of the twentieth century's most renowned writers. Returning to America in 1912, he settled in California, worked in a number of jobs, and later married.
It was during the Depression era that he seriously turned his hand to writing, and his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six years later, when he was fifty, by his first novel, The Big Sleep.