Book description
The Long Good-bye is a classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the
master of hard-boiled crime.
Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire
wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his
only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. He's
willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox commits
suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. 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.
Marlowe is sure Lennox didn't kill his wife, but how many more stiffs
will turn up before he gets to the truth?
'Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first
sentence' Daily Telegraph
'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still
try to attain' Sunday Times
'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal
as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess
Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip
Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in
1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is
widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective
fiction. His books include The Big Sleep, The Little
Sister, Farewell, My Lovely, The Long Good-bye,
The Lady in the Lake, Playback, Killer in the
Rain, The High Window and Trouble is My Business.
Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip
Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959.
Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely
regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction.
