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The novel takes us to the United States during the Great Depression. Old, rich and wheelchair-bound General Sternwood hires a detective to investigate a blackmail case involving one of his two desperate daughters. Philip Marlowe takes up the case and descends into the neon-lit hell of Los Angeles, where the most popular sins of the mid-twentieth century reign supreme: gambling, alcoholism, murder, smuggling, corruption, drug addiction, racketeering, debauchery, blackmail.

«Deep Sleep» — — a classic of the cool detective and noir genre. This is Raymond Chandler's debut novel, in which the author first introduces us to Philip Marlowe, a character who has become the quintessential urban private detective and the Prometheus of American myth.

Raymond Chandler is a sophisticated stylist, and The Deep Sleep is full of colourful slang, ironic comparisons and sumptuous shootout-like dialogue. By the way, there is no shortage of shootouts in the novel. The events unfold in a stunning way, with masks being torn off one by one and dirty secrets being exposed. Marlowe goes through all the nine circles of modern hell with dignity, and his guide is a tiny ray of pure light that breaks through the dank emptiness that is the world. But even this ray can fade away, and we will all fall into a deep sleep one by one.