A classic novel by Raymond Chandler,the master of hard-boiled crime,The Long Good-Bye is the sixth novel featuring laconic PI Philip MarloweDown-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe,Private Investigator.He's willing to help a man down on his luck,but later,Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe finds himself drawn into a sordid crowd of adulterers and alcoholics in LA's Idle Valley,where the rich are suffering one big suntanned hangover.Marlowe is sure Lennox didn't kill his wife,but how many more stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth'Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence'Daily Telegraph'One of the greatest crime writers,who set standards others still try to attain'Sunday Times'Chandler is an original stylist,creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes'Anthony Burgess
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241954362Number of pages: 464Weight: 320 gDimensions: 198 x 130 x 28 mm
Raymond Chandler
An Anglo-American crime writer whose work transcended the traditional boundaries of the genre,Raymond Chandler was one of the great prose stylists of the 20th century. He was the archetypal author of the'hard-boiled'school of crime writing and created the iconic private eye Philip Marlowe.
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Adept at getting inside the head of criminal and victim alike,Jeffery Deaver is the author of expertly crafted crime novels. His most famous creation is the quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme,whose first literary outing,The Bone Collector,was turned into a Hollywood movie in 1999.
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