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The Long Goodbye

  • Raymond Chandler

4.06

16 ratings

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.

Genres

  • Los Angeles (Calif.)
  • Private investigators
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • Los Angeles (Calif.) - Fiction
  • Mystery & Detective
  • Political
  • Hard-Boiled
  • Fiction
  • Mystery fiction
  • American Detective and mystery stories
  • General
  • California
  • Private investigators - California - Los Angeles - Fiction
  • Los Angeles
  • Marlowe; Philip (Fictitious character)
  • Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character)
  • Marlowe; Philip (Fictitious character) - Fiction
  • Crime
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled
  • California, fiction
  • Marlowe, philip (fictitious character), fiction
  • Los angeles (calif.), fiction
  • Private investigators, fiction
  • Edgar Award
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About the author

  • Raymond Chandler

    1888 - 1959

    3.84

    142 ratings · 356 works

Editions

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    VIntage Crime / Black Lizard

    1988

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    Ballantine

    1981

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    Ballantine

    1974

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    Pocket Books

    1955

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Pocket Books

1964

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    3. Auflage

    Diogenes

    1976

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    Penguin Group UK

    2008

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    BBC Audiobooks

    January 4, 1999

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    New Millennium Audio

    April 2002

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    BBC Audiobooks

    September 20, 2004

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    1st Vintage Books ed.

    Vintage books

    1988

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    Houghton Mifflin (T)

    June 1953

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    1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed.

    Vintage Books

    1992

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    Abridged edition

    Phoenix Books

    May 1, 2006

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    ISIS Publishing

    Apr 20, 1993

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    Hamish Hamilton

    1953

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    Abridged edition

    New Millennium Audio

    April 2002

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    H. Hamilton, Hamish Hamilton Ltd

    1971

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    Penguin, Penguin Books

    1959

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    Penguin

    1959

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    Ballantine Books

    April 12, 1977

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    Houghton Mifflin

    1954

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    Houghton Mifflin

    1954

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    Collins Audio

    1989

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    Ballantine Books

    January 12, 1982

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    Ballantine Books

    1973

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    Hougnton Mifflin

    1954

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    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

    2002

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    Ballantine Books

    July 12, 1985

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    Random House

    1992

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    Ballantine Books

    March 12, 1980

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    1954

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    Hamish Hamilton

    1988

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    Pan Books

    1979

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    Ballantine Books

    1971