Farewell, My Lovely Chandler, Raymond

It was one of the mixed blocks over on Central Avenue, the blocks that are all not yet Negro. (from the first line)

Moose Malloy, a six-foot-five giant just out of prison, gets detective Philip Marlowe involved in his seemingly hopeless search for Velma, his missing girlfriend, a seemingly routine case soon complicated by a gang of jewel thieves, a suspicious fortune-teller, corruption, and murder. Reissue. *Author: Chandler, Raymond *Series Title: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard *Publication Date: 1992/08/01 *Binding Type: Paperbound *Language: English *Depth: 0.75 *Width: 5.00 *Height: 5.50

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Moose Malloy, a six-foot-five giant just out of prison, gets detective Philip Marlowe involved in his seemingly hopeless search for Velma, his missing girlfriend, a seemingly routine case soon complicated by a gang of jewel thieves, a suspicious fortune-teller, corruption, and murder. Reissue.

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In this second Philip Marlowe novel, the detective is more fleshed-out and well-drawn. Chandler expanded Marlowe's trademark irreverence and wise-guy remakrs, and in "Farewell, My Lovely" Marlowe is more well-intentioned. Taking on the case of Moose Malloy, wrongly imprisoned for robbery, Marlowe must also find Malloy's love Velma, who disappeared when Malloy was imprisoned eight years before. Also Marlowe must come to terms with his feelings for Anne Riordan, who is assisting him with the case.

Author Bio

Raymond Chandler

Chandler was raised by his mother after his father disappeared. At the age of 8, he moved to London, where he later attended Dulwich College and excelled in his studies. After graduating, Chandler traveled, returned to London for a civil service job, and left that job to become a writer. He moved to California, but served with the Canadian army during World War I. After being injured in the war, Chandler returned to California and became an executive with the Dabney Oil Syndicate and got married. He drank excessively and was fired from his job, but in 1933 he published his first story in the pulp magazine "Black Mask", and wrote fiction for the next 10 years. He then signed on with Paramount as a screenwriter. In 1946, after an enormously successful career in Hollywood, Chandler retired from the movies. His wife died in 1954, and Chandler sank into an alcoholic depression for the next five years. In 1959, he died of pneumonia, one month after being elected president of Mystery Writers of America. Along with Dashiell Hammett, Chandler is arguably the greatest mystery/detection writer of the 20th century. He, Hammett, and James M. Cain set the standard for the so-called "hard-boiled" or "noir" fiction, and strongly influenced Mickey Spillane, Ross Macdonald, and Robert B. Parker, among others. Chandler's detective, Philip Marlowe, was an updated variation on the questing knight of medieval legend, with a strong ethical code and a tortured, alienated soul.

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Book Format:		Paperback
Number of Pages:		0304
Publisher:		Vintage Books

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