The Long Good-bye

Notes

The Long Good-bye by Raymond Chandler won the 1955 Edgar Award for Best Novel. Chandler composed this story whilst his wife was dying.

“While she was dying, and I knew she was dying, I wrote my best book. I wrote it in agony, but I wrote it.”  ~ Raymond Chandler

Publisher’s Synopsis

Down-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?

Read a full review of The Long Good-bye by Raymond Chandler at Guy Salvidge‘s site.