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. In noir master Raymond Chandlers The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. He's willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. The Long Goodbye Essays Racism as It Relates to the Detective: Marlowes Negative Stereotypes in The Long Goodbye Leah Katz College The Long Goodbye The middle of the twentieth century was rife with racial conflict and movement toward equal rights. A visit by an old friend in the night sets in train a series of events in which he’s hired to search for a missing novelist, and finds himself on the wrong side of vicious gangsters. A classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime, The Long Good-Bye is the sixth novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marloweĭown-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. Philip Marlowe is a private eye with an outmoded code of honour at odds with the mores of early ‘70s Los Angeles.
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