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The Long Goodbye

Raymond Chandler

447 pages

About this book

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.

Themes
Dark & BroodingMysteriousMelancholic & NostalgicThrilling & PropulsiveLoyalty against moral decayThe cost of personal honorIsolation in a corrupt cityFriendship as quiet rebellion
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