The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler5/18/2023 The plot, whilst complicated, is engaging and fast-paced and always has the reader guessing what will happen in the next chapter, and how Marlowe will reconcile the situation. The story is masterfully told, as Chandler creates a living, breathing world that sucks the reader in, with a cast of intriguing characters whose motivations are always uncertain. The two become friends and regularly meet for a drink in the bar, until one day Lennox needs Marlowe’s help to leave the country undetected under suspicious circumstances, leaving a dead body behind. The novel opens with Marlowe meeting the enigmatic Terry Lennox drunk on the street, having been kicked out of a taxi. Marlowe moves around in post-World War II Los Angeles investigating for anyone from rich heiresses who need stolen jewellery recovered to worried publishers who need their star writer found, whilst meeting all kinds of characters along the way. I first read The Long Goodbye when I was 16, and when I did I was introduced to the seedy world of Phillip Marlowe, the character who for me will always embody the classic hard-boiled detective.
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