I kissed my mother's forehead—waxy, the way it had been for days now—and pushed her black hair back. ... in other times, and still does, in other places, but I wonder if it might have helped me to take care one last time of the body I'd ...
An encounter with a drunk brings both adventure and trouble to a cynical middle-aged private detective
A classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime, The Long Good-Bye is the sixth novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get ...
Nothing is what it seems as Marlowe unravels the Wades' scheme to expose the truth behind Lennox's facade. The most autobiographical of his novels, The Long Goodbye was considered by Chandler to be his best work.
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When Terry Lennox's wife is murdered, his friend, private detective Philip Marlowe, helps him to leave the country. The police arrest Marlowe, but then release him and, strangely, tell him to forget everything.
And (I have to separate these men from the rest) Pat Buchanan and Bob Dole. I heard them praising my father in order to praise themselves—using him, clutching wildly to his coattails in their race for the presidency.
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a list of his wife's lovers so that you might find a murderer among them ? " I didn't answer that either , but for different reasons . “ And would the name of Roger Wade appear on that list by any chance ? " she asked harshly .