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The Big Sleep
Philip Marlowe is hired to deal with a blackmail problem for an ailing general, and the case almost immediately stops being about the blackmail. In the course of The Big Sleep’s 231 pages, Raymond Chandler produces a plot so layered that he famously could not explain, when asked, who killed the chauffeur — a detail…
