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The long goodbye first edition
The long goodbye first edition










the long goodbye first edition the long goodbye first edition

‘Guy catches his wife cheating and beats her head to raw flesh and bone and blood-soaked hair. Terry then apparently beats Sylvia to death in a jealous rage after finding she has been unfaithful. Curt Westerheym, Sylvia’s last but one, my dears, gave her the little eighteen-room shack for a wedding present, you may remember. Sylvia is having Marcel and Jeanne Duhaux redecorate the entire mansion in Encino from basement to roof in the most devastatingly dernier cri. She’s the younger daughter of multimillionaire Harlan Potter of San Francisco and Pebble Beach, of course. ‘Your correspondent is all fluttery at the news that Terry and Sylvia Lennox have rehitched at Las Vegas, the dears. Lennox eventually gets back together with his wife, which Marlowe reads about in the gossip columns: Lennox is the politest drunk Marlowe ever met, which attracts the PI’s interest, and they become occasional drinking buddies. The book begins with Marlowe befriending a drunk named Terry Lennox, who married into money and then left it to drift down to the gutter. The Long Goodbye was Raymond Chandler’s sixth novel to feature his world-weary private eye Philip Marlowe, and is rated number 15 in the CWA’s top 100 novels. We’re a big, rough, rich, wild people and crime is the price we pay for it, and organized crime is the price we pay for organization. Cops are like a doctor that gives you aspirin for a brain tumour, except that the cop would rather cure it with a blackjack.












The long goodbye first edition