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 Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the ’40s and ’50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily. In The Long Goodbye, Marlowe forms an uneasy friendship with a drunk named Terry Lennox. So when Lennox shows up late one night, looking guilty and asking for a ride to Tijuana airport, Marlowe agrees - though he suspects he’s going to regret it. He’s right. First Lennox’s rich, adulterous wife is found murdered, then Marlowe is arrested, then Lennox himself turns up dead in Mexico: an apparent suicide with a signed confession by his side. And if that wasn’t enough, Marlowe also finds himself babysitting an author to make sure he delivers his next book. Trying to juggle two increasingly tricky cases, Marlowe knows that if he takes his eye off the ball, he could end up dead... Starring Toby Stephens, this powerful dramatisation by Stephen Wyatt cannot fail to draw you into Raymond Chandler’s darkly attractive world of deceit, decadence and death. Classics Detective Dramatisations Entertainment & Performing Arts Modern Detectives Mystery Private Investigators Traditional Detectives Adaptation Fiction Marriage
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Loved it, Toby Stevens Marlowe is granite with a marshmallow centre! A classic Chandler tale not to be missed.

Marlowe magic!

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This is the Radio play from Raymond Chandlers book and condenses one of the very best Philip Marlowe stories into a one and a half hour play. Certain characters (Linda and Dr Loring) are missing altogether, but that is the nature of an adaption. The relationship between Marlowe and Terry Lennox, which lies at the heart of the story is very effectively played and overall I preferred this faithful adaptation of Chandlers book, to the film version, which in my view took too many liberties with the story

Very effective dramatisation of the book

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I haven't even gotten past the first chapter and I had to remove this one. There is music, there are sounds for glass breaking, for cars passing, for background chatter, different voices for each character and so on. This, of course, is a matter of preference. Personally, I think it ruins the atmosphere of the book. It doesn't leave out anything to imagination. I can't enjoy it.

Too many sounds that ruin the experience

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