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The Long Goodbye

by Raymond Chandler

A private eye caught in a widening case

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Awards & Recognition

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    One of TIME Magazine’s 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time

    Named one of TIME Magazine's 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time.

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A private eye caught in a widening case

Philip Marlowe’s friendship with Terry Lennox becomes entangled with a death, a flight from the authorities, and pressure from both the police and a gangster. The setup brings personal loyalty into a hard-boiled crime investigation, with Marlowe drawn into consequences that extend beyond the original friendship. The publisher’s description places the novel in an urban private-eye tradition and foregrounds the collision of wealth, violence, and legal scrutiny.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers of hard-boiled private-eye mysteries featuring Philip Marlowe.
  • Readers interested in crime plots shaped by friendship, a death investigation, and pursuit by police and gangsters.

Themes

Friendship and loyaltyCrime and investigationWealth and violencePursuit and suspicion

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Book overview

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME - The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe - Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.

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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