Long Goodbye

This novel would be my selection for Most Ignored American Classic. It is a novel that totally transcends the mystery genre. Few serious students of American literature are familiar with Chandler; that's a shame. In England, he is often mentioned with Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner, or Fitzgerald as a great American writer of the 20th century. Americans seem to dismiss him because his genre is not respected. That's the real crime!

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Ostensibly a detective story, this novel is one of the great achievements of twentieth-century literature. In the first three pages alone, Chandler perfect encapsulates the apathy of modernity, and the prize and rewards offered the lone man who resists the shiftless world of phrases like "who cares?" The mystery itself isn't as intriguing as Chandler's earlier work, but the depth of characterization, passion, and what can only be described as epic humanization carry it far beyond the calibre of his previous books. Written in flawlessly penetrating and insightful prose, this novel has more philosophical weight than volumes of French existentialism.

The first time Marlowe sets eyes on Terry Lennox, he is lying drunk in the passenger seat of a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith. The next time, he's on Skid Row. After they share a few gimlets, Marlowe thinks he seems like a nice guy, but he's had a hard life, to which his white hair and scarred face can attest. Or could it be marriage to Sylvia Lennox that has turned him prematurely grey? Although beautiful and rich, she plays the field in a big way.

Lennox says he has the promise of a job in Las Vegas, and Marlowe helps him out with the cost of the ticket. Two weeks later, he gets the money back, with a note from Lennox saying he is starting a second honeymoon with Sylvia. But the honeymoon turns sour, the dame ends up dead and Lennox turns up on Marlowe's doorstep in big trouble. He needs to get away in a hurry, and against his better judgement Marlowe agrees to take him to Tijuana. Soon after, the cops arrive, and Marlowe finds himself cooling his heels in the can, suspected of helping Sylvia's killer escape. And that's not the end of his problems, not by a long shot…

Long Goodbye Details

• Author: Raymond Chandler


• Hardcover: 320 pages


• ISBN-10: 9997407636


• ISBN-13: 978-9997407634


• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (T) (June 1953)


• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches


• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces

About the Author

Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888 - 1959) was the master practitioner of American hard-boiled crime fiction. Although he was born in Chicago, Chandler spent most of his boyhood and youth in England where he attended Dulwich College and later worked as a freelance journalist for "The Westminster Gazette" and "The Spectator," During World War I, Chandler served in France with the First Division of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, transferring later to the Royal Flying Corps (R. A. F.). In 1919 he returned to the United States, settling in California, where he eventually became director of a number of independent oil companies. The Depression put an end to his career, and in 1933, at the age of forty-five, he turned to writing fiction, publishing his first stories in "Black Mask," Chandler's detective stories often starred the brash but honorable Philip Marlowe (introduced in 1939 in his first novel, The Big Sleep) and were noted for their literate presentation and dead-on critical eye. Never a prolific writer, Chandler published only one collection of stories and seven novels in his lifetime. Some of Chandler's novels, like The Big Sleep, were made into classic movies which helped define the film noir style. In the last year of his life he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. He died in La Jolla, California on March 26, 1959.

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