The Long Goodbye (1954) Raymond Chandler (Author)
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Terry Lenox, drawing on several evenings of drinks together, asks for a late-night favor that lands Marlowe in jail while Lenox winds up dead. Once out, Marlowe is hired by a writer's wife to keep her husband sober enough to finish his current book. While the job doesn't appeal to him, he keeps finding himself drawn back by it to Lenox's suicide and the brutal murder that drove him away from everything he loved.
MAIN CHARACTERS :
Philip Marlowe, Detective--Private, Terry Lenox, Alcoholic (ex-soldier), Eileen Wade, Spouse
GENRE :
Mystery fiction
SUB GENRE :
Private Detective
SETTING(S) :
Los Angeles, California, North America, Southwest, United States, West
SUBJECT :
Love, Marriage, Mystery fiction, Detective fiction, Wars, Writing
TIME PERIOD :
20th century AD, 1950s (Decade) AD
Gale Document Number: GALE|M1300038831
Gale Database: What Do I Read Next?, 2010
SOURCE CITATION : "The Long Goodbye." 2010. Books & Authors Gale. Gale Internal User. 2 Sep 2010 <http://books.wiseto.com/bna/start.do?p=BNA&u=gale>
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