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'I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room'

Cynical Los Angeles Private Investigator Philip Marlowe always falls for a sob story. Eight years ago Moose Malloy and cute little redhead Velma were getting married - until Malloy was framed for armed robbery. Now he's out and he wants Velma back. Marlowe meets Malloy one hot day in Hollywood and, out of the generosity of his jaded heart, agrees to help. Dragged from one smoky bar to another, Marlowe's search for Velma turns up plenty of gangsters with a nasty habit of shooting first and talking later. And soon what started as a search for a missing person becomes a matter of life and death . . .

Farewell, My Lovely is Raymond Chandler's second novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe.

'Chandler 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

©1988 Raymond Chandler (P)2020 Penguin Audio Classics Modern Detectives Mystery Private Investigators Fiction Detective Heartfelt
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very well constructed, with a lot of unexpected turns. It gives a credible picture of life on the eve of WW2

That's suspense

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This is a newly released recording so very few reviews but it's pretty much perfect. narrator has won awards.

highly recommended

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I really enjoyed this book. Intelligent writing with a plot that kept me interested to the end, and guessing until the end also. It's very much of it's time, but that time period has been immortalised in classic cinema by the likes of Bogart and Mitchum and if you enjoy those old black and white film noir movies you should enjoy the books, like this one, from which those movies came. I found myself visualising some scenes in my mind's eye as if watching one. In fact I'd say the books have stood the test of time even better than the films. Definitely recommended if you like this genre.

noir classic

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It starts simple but then spirals into disparate threads, climbing in a tense crescendo as Marlowe pulls it together. Epic.

Classic Noire

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Chandler once again writes a brilliant plot that seems to want only to hurt his character but is instead delicately weaving a story that compels you to keep listening for more.

The reading is very much in keeping with the period and brings the characters to life beautifully.

A fantastic detective novel

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