What should a good detective story contain? In “The Simple Art of Murder”, by Raymond Chandler, he writes out the guidelines that are needed to able to call a detective story good. Chandler also wrote a book called The Big Sleep that is a detective story about two out of control sisters, a hardboiled detective, murders, and never ending of twist and turns. Chandler does follow his guidelines when he wrote The Big Sleep by being realistic, element uplift, fools the reader, and honest to the reader. Fiction can seem realistic, in which Chandler conveys it strongly throughout The Big Sleep by his characters, background, and situations. All of the characters have realistic qualities none of them do unrealistic things. The character’s act as if