The Long Goodbye

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Mystery / Chandler, Raymond	4-week checkout	Due 05-05-2024

Originally published in hardcover in 1953 by Houghton Mifflin.
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, who he's divorced and re-married 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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Skillfully done submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on August 27, 2016, 4:09pm This book was outside of my usual genre, and I think that's why it took me a little while to get into. But I was reading it for book club, so stuck with it. I'm really glad I did.

Very skillfully done. It's a noir detective novel (think of those old shadowy movies with the detective in a trench coat and sexy lady coming into his bare office to ask for help... or, alternately, "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" without the cartoons). One of the things that I liked about the mystery that was being solved is that it wasn't set up as the "this is what I'm hired to solve" problem for the PI. There were other problems laid out in the forefront, and all the pieces intertwined.

Told first person, the PI's observational skills are what make this book so rich. He notices everything (that's part of the skill set for the job), and so we are aware of his surroundings in a way that draws us in. But then the author uses dialog to weave it all together into a storyline that fascinates. In the end, I was hooked.