The Long Good-bye

<p><b>A classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime, <i>The Long Good-Bye</i> is the sixth novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Marlowe is sure Lennox didn't kill his wife, but how many more stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth?<br><br><b>'Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><b><br>'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><b><br>'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess</b></p> <p><b>A classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime, <i>The Long Good-Bye</i> is the sixth novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Marlowe is sure Lennox didn't kill his wife, but how many more stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth?<br><br><b>'Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence' <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><b><br>'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><b><br>'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess</b></p>