Here is my submission for the Penguin book cover competition for 2013. The book we had to re-design for the book "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandler. This book is a bit of an spicy novel set in the 1940's and involves a lot of sex, guns and detectives.
You wouldn't believe it but I almost lost this design 30 mins before the international submission deadline. Lucky that my sweet friend Chelsea found it on the computer
The Big Sleep (1939) is a hardboiled crime novel by Raymond Chandler, the first in his acclaimed series about detective Philip Marlowe. The work has been adapted twice into film,once in 1946 and again in 1978. The story is set in Los Angeles, California.
The story is noted for its complexity, with many characters double-crossing one another and many secrets being exposed throughout the narrative. The title is a euphemism for death; it refers to a rumination in the book about "sleeping the big sleep".
In 1999, the book was voted ninety-sixth of Le Monde's "100 Books of the Century." In 2005, it was included in "TIME's List of the 100 Best Novels."
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