by Raymond Chandler · Diario El País, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496390058
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«El sueño eterno» is the crime novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 2004 by Diario El País in paperback (236 pages, in Spanish).
The elderly General Sternwood, immobile in a wheelchair in his Californian mansion, hires detective Philip Marlowe to deal with a blackmail that implicates his daughters. The investigation leads him to move among the underworld of a society with a brilliant facade, with sharp dialogue and a constant atmosphere of suspense.
First installment of the Philip Marlowe series (original: The Big Sleep, 1939). No. 46 of the Serie Negra collection from El País, with translation by Inés Navarro and Antonio Gómez.
For fans of crime fiction and classics of the detective genre who want to discover the first adventure of Philip Marlowe.
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime. All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once.
