The Long Good-bye
Author: Chandler, Raymond
ISBN: 9780241954362
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 31 Mar 2011
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback / softback
July 2005 sees a major relaunch of Chandler's Philip Marlowe series to tie in with Harrogate Crime Festival.
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?
ISBN: 9780241954362
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 31 Mar 2011
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback / softback
July 2005 sees a major relaunch of Chandler's Philip Marlowe series to tie in with Harrogate Crime Festival.
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?
