Winner · Edgar Awards 1955
The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
1953 novel by Raymond Chandler
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.
Synopsis from Open Library.
- Language
- English
- Genre
- detective fiction
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