Wednesday, December 24, 2008

#92. Farewell, My Lovely


Title - Farewell, My Lovely (1940)
Author - Raymond Chandler
Runtime - Seven Hours [Unabridged]
Language Variety- North American English
Genre- Hardboiled Crime Fiction

Book Description

Young tornado of a tale in which Philip Marlowe, private detective, witnesses the killing of a bartender, in a Negro joint, and then of a client, who seems to be fingerman for a gang of jip artists and dope peddlers. Marlowe takes a tall amount of assault and battery as he defies the police and prowls on his own, with the help of a redhead. He follows the trail which leads from a bar to a seductive blonde to a spurious occulist to a graft-ridden California police set-up.