must save her people--even if she cannot save herself

and nephews when her grandmother Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy passed away

and the unquenchable spirit of the people was second to none

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The Big Sleep Fiction must save her people--even ifLos Angeles Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair bound General Sternwood to discover who is blackmailing him. A broken, weary old man, Sternwood just wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. However, 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