![]() ![]() ![]() Marlowe is a tough guy, but not a superhero. But Raymond Chandler seems to write each book as a stand-alone, and this could just as easily have been the first appearance of his private dick. ![]() This struck me as I read it, because most modern detective series, by the sixth book, will have accumulated a supporting cast of recurring characters and references to previous cases. The Long Goodbye is actually the sixth Philip Marlowe novel. Marlowe is probably second only to Sam Spade as the most famous of hard-boiled detectives. This was my first novel by Raymond Chandler about his famous detective Philip Marlowe. Marlowe is sure Lennox didn't kill his wife, but how many more stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth? Marlowe finds himself drawn into a sordid crowd of adulterers and alcoholics in LA's Idle Valley, where the rich are suffering one big suntanned hangover. He's willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. ![]() Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. ![]()
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