Philip Marlowe is looking for a woman's missing husband when he encounters Moose Malloy, a brute fresh out of prison, looking for his lost love Velma. Moose kills a man and Marlowe gets corralled into looking for the missing Velma. In the mean time, Marlowe gets another gig as a bodyguard and soon...
Not as good as "The big sleep". I wasn't really interested in the mystery itself and it seems even Chandler himself wasn't really interested. But it was fun listening to Marlowe's mind.
Perhaps even superior to 'The Big Sleep', once again Chandler delivers on every level - engaging plot with the requisite twists and turns, great characters - sometimes larger than life, but always still somehow clinging to it - and a voice that makes for some real edge and dark comedy. even some of ...
It took me a long time to like this book. The writing was much better than Big Sleep, where it took half the book for RC just to find his voice -- his first book -- I mean, to really find it. The writing here was often gorgeous... and pointless... and so very modern. But it wasn't till ch. 25 that ...
Saturday Play - Classic Chandler: 3. Farewell My Lovely. Toby Stephens is Chandler's smart-talking, trouble-seeking LA private eye Philip Marlowe.blurb - Dramatised by Robin BrooksWhen Philip Marlowe sees a huge, loudly dressed man casually throwing a bouncer out onto the the pavement as he goes int...
Another Chandler classic. Marlowe gets involve into a web of intrigue that ends up almost costing him his life. Talk about being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Marlowe has develop that ability into an art form. It's noir at his best, written by one of its master. The one every other writers t...
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