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The Long Goodbye

A Philip Marlowe Novel, Book 6

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The Long Goodbye

Written by: Raymond Chandler
Narrated by: Scott Brick
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Crime fiction master Raymond Chandler's sixth novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times).

In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. And now Lennox is on the lam, and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.

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What the critics say

"Raymond Chandler is a master." (The New York Times)

“[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision.” (Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books)

“[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.” (The New Yorker)

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A great classic story with the various characters well performed. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

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Really good narration. Lots of engaging memorable prose. Didn't know where the story was going and really enjoyed it. Started to drag a bit near the end when he's piecing everything together, but not bad pacing for that. I especially like chapter 13.

Solid Story

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