- Los Angeles (Calif.), Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, Los Angeles (Calif.) - Fiction
In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. And now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.
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Classical in form, grave, meticulous and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- rawmeticulous
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Raymond Chandler
- First published
- 1953
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Vintage books, Houghton Mifflin, Pocket Books
- Editions
- 35
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780394757681
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“The first time I laid eyes on Terry Lennox he was drunk in a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith outside the terrace of The Dancers.”
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