The Long Good-Bye

Beschreibung

A classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime, The Long Good-Bye is the sixth novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>Marlowe is sure Lennox didn't kill his wife, but how many more stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth?<BR><BR>'Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph<BR><BR>'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times<BR><BR>'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess

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