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The Long Goodbye

By: Raymond Chandler
Narrated by: Scott Brick
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ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.

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.

Accolades & Awards

Edgar Award
1955
Crime Fiction Edgar Award Private Investigators Mystery Noir Hard-Boiled Detective Crime Fiction Mafia
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Critic reviews

"Raymond Chandler is a master." --The New York Times

“[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.” --The New Yorker

“Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.” --Robert B. Parker, The New York Times Book Review

“Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye.” --Los Angeles Times

“Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist.” —The Boston Book Review

“Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandler’s prose. . . . He wrote like an angel.” --Literary Review

“[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision.” --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books

“Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.” —Ross Macdonald

“Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude.” --Erle Stanley Gardner

“Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.” --Paul Auster

“[Chandler]’s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world that’s like ours, but isn’t. ” --Carolyn See

Complex Plot • Intricate Mystery • Great Narration • Masterful Storytelling • Classic Noir • Clever Twists

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Some dated racial references, probably to be expected from that era. Pacing somewhat inconsistent. Good style.

Interesting, a little dated

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The story had a great beginning and ending, but the middle was a slog. The narrator at first felt corny, but his voice was right for the story. He did a good job.

A mixed bag

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some of the best narration I have heard on an audiobook. it's amazing that one narrator can do a better job than a whole cast

excellent story excellent reading

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Great mystery but dated over macho deliver, music between chapters way over dramatic . Marlow too self righteous

Great mystery

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Chandler writes a first read story with plenty for Philip Marlowe to do. Scott brick does a wonderful job, keeping the characters alive and the rhythm of the story moving along nicely. Highly recommended!

Stellar on all counts

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