The Long Goodbye -- Raymond Chandler

<b>Crime fiction master Raymond Chandler's sixth novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the quintessential urban private eye (<i>Los Angeles Times</i>).</b> <p/>In noir master Raymond Chandler's <i>The Long Goodbye</i>, 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.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Raymond Chandler<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage Crime/Black Lizard<br><b>Published:</b> 08/12/1988<br><b>Pages:</b> 384<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.82lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.02h x 5.22w x 0.78d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780394757681<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Library Journal</i> 07/01/2002 pg. 128<br><i>Newsweek</i> 09/29/2008 pg. 14<br><i>Library Journal</i> 07/15/2002<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888 - 1959) was the master practitioner of American hard-boiled crime fiction. Although he was born in Chicago, Chandler spent most of his boyhood and youth in England where he attended Dulwich College and later worked as a freelance journalist for <i>The Westminster Gazette</i> and <i>The Spectator</i>. During World War I, Chandler served in France with the First Division of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, transferring later to the Royal Flying Corps (R. A. F.). In 1919 he returned to the United States