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Farewell, My Lovely
Phillip Marlowe (Related to this series)
- Author
- Raymond Chandler
- Narrator
- Scott Brick
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 21 January 2021
- Run Time
- 8 hours 43 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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'I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room'
Cynical Los Angeles Private Investigator Philip Marlowe always falls for a sob story. Eight years ago Moose Malloy and cute little redhead Velma were getting married - until Malloy was framed for armed robbery. Now he's out and he wants Velma back. Marlowe meets Malloy one hot day in Hollywood and, out of the generosity of his jaded heart, agrees to help. Dragged from one smoky bar to another, Marlowe's search for Velma turns up plenty of gangsters with a nasty habit of shooting first and talking later. And soon what started as a search for a missing person becomes a matter of life and death . . .
Farewell, My Lovely is Raymond Chandler's second novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe.
'Chandler 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
© Raymond Chandler 1988 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
User Reviews
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There's no one quite like Raymond Chandler or Philip Marlowe in detective fiction. The seediness and grit of the stories the most famous gumshoe of them all has to address is matched only by the humanity and wit he employs to do so. The stories may be cruel and vicious but they are leavened by the quick fire repartee of Marlowe (Chandler) who could almost be a comedian in the style of Groucho Marx. The day-to-day lives of Chandler's characters are drawn with such cold precision while being imbued with the hot-bloodedness of real emotions. Farewell My Lovely is a classic work of genius of Chandler's great art.
Thomas Reilly 2025-10-19
Details
- Author
- Raymond Chandler
- Narrator
- Scott Brick
- Duration
- 8 hours 43 minutes
- Release Date
- 21 January 2021
- ISBN
- 9780241989418
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Classic crime and mystery fiction, Classic fiction: literary and general
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. 'I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room'Cynical Los Angeles Private Investigator Philip Marlowe always falls for a sob story. Eight years ago Moose Malloy and cute little redhead Velma were getting married - until Malloy was framed for armed robbery. Now he's out and he wants Velma back. Marlowe meets Malloy one hot day in Hollywood and, out of the generosity of his jaded heart, agrees to help. Dragged from one smoky bar to another, Marlowe's search for Velma turns up plenty of gangsters with a nasty habit of shooting first and talking later. And soon what started as a search for a missing person becomes a matter of life and death . . .Farewell, My Lovely is Raymond Chandler's second novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe.'Chandler 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© Raymond Chandler 1988 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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