The long goodbye

by Raymond Chandler

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Series (with order)

Philip Marlowe (6)

Canonical Title

The long goodbye

Original publication date

1953

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Los Angeles, California, USA

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Awards and honors

Edgar Award (Novel, 1955)

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The first time I laid eyes on Terry Lennox he was drunk in a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith outside the terrace of The Dancers.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0394757688, Paperback)

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, who he's divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.

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