The novel opens with Marlowe meeting the enigmatic Terry Lennox drunk on the street, having been kicked out of a taxi. Marlowe moves around in post-World War II Los Angeles investigating for anyone from rich heiresses who need stolen jewellery recovered to worried publishers who need their star writer found, whilst meeting all kinds of characters along the way. In 1973, Robert Altman filmed an adaptation set in contemporary Los Angeles, with Elliott Gould as Marlowe.I first read The Long Goodbye when I was 16, and when I did I was introduced to the seedy world of Phillip Marlowe, the character who for me will always embody the classic hard-boiled detective. This live telecast is memorable for an incident in which the actor Tris Coffin, whose character had just died, thinking he was out of camera range, stood up and walked away while in view of the TV audience.
It was dramatized for television in 1954 for the anthology series Climax!, with Dick Powell playing Marlowe, as he had a decade earlier in the film Murder, My Sweet. “Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious" (Robert B. The Long Goodbye was praised in an anthology of American crime stories as "arguably the first book since Hammett's The Glass Key, published more than twenty years earlier, to qualify as a serious and significant mainstream novel that just happened to possess elements of mystery" (Pronzini p.169). Two characters in the novel are based on Chandler himself both of them highlight Chandler's awareness of his own flaws-his alcoholism and his doubts about the value of his writing.
Her illness and death had a profound effect on him, driving him into fits of melancholy and leading him to talk of and even attempt suicide. The Long Goodbye is Chandler's most personal novel. First edition of Raymond Chandler’s sixth novel featuring the private investigator Philip Marlowe.
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