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The Long Goodbye
(Raymond Chandler)

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If the blues was whisky, Philip Marlowe, Private Detective, would be drunk all the time. Marlowe first encounters the English Expat, Terry Lennox as his wealthy ex-wife, Sylvia, throws him onto the street in front of the Dancers? Club. Later, Marlowe again meets a very drunk Terry Lennox and takes him home to sober him up. The man has been left with no money, so Marlowe lends him enough to return to Las Vegas. Afterwards, Marlowe finds a payment from Lennox and discovers that the man has reunited with his ex-wife and is now richer than they come.
 
Marlowe?s not quite sure why he felt such a connection with the drunk Terry Lennox, but he found the sorrow in Lennox?s eyes palpable and from the first moment there was a tie between them. When Lennox shows up at Marlowe?s apartment one night begging to be driven to Mexico, Marlowe agrees and drives him to Tijuana. It turns out that Lennox believes he has killed his wife, Sylvia and needs to flee the country. After the drive, Marlowe returns to his apartment. He is waylaid by the police and spends time in jail for his refusal to cooperate with the law. Against his better instincts, Marlowe?s life is caught up with that of Terry Lennox and for no good reason he decides to follow the case.
 
The police inform Marlowe that Lennox is dead; he shot himself in a hotel room in Tijuana with a signed letter confessing to the murder of Sylvia. Convenient, too convenient it seems to Marlowe. The case appears tied up like a neat little birthday present. Perhaps that is the reason Marlowe won?t rest until the case is solved, or perhaps it is the vision of Terry Lennox swaying drunk in front of the Dancers? Club. Who knows; in any case Marlow never did know when to give up.
 
The more Marlowe investigates, the more he discovers about Lennox?s past. It appears that Meny Menendez, a gangster, knew Lennox when they served in the army. Soon afterwards Marlowe receives $5,000 from Lennox with a letter discussing the murder.
 
Later, Howard Spencer, a publisher?s representative, hires Marlowe to find a missing writer, Roger Wade. His wife, Eileen Wade, informs Marlowe that her husband is a drunk, and often ends up at drunk farms to get off the booze. He finds Roger Wade in the hands of a sadistic doctor and saves the man from being murdered by the doctor. The plot thickens as he links Eileen Wade to Sylvia Lennox.
 
Marlowe follows the trail by meeting Sylvia?s sister, Linda Loring, at a party given at the Wades? house. Linda is married to a terrible doctor who is supplying drugs to his patients. They try and help him find some more slues about the case. He also finds out that Wade accusses Linda?s husband of having an affair with his wife.
 
Suddenly, Roger Wade is found dead in his house. Eventually Marlowe discovers that Wade?s wife, Eileen, is the murderer. She was previously married to Terry Lennox who went missing during the war and was presumed dead. She then married the wealthy Roger Wade and was afraid that with the return of Lennox, her husband would annul the marriage and she would be left out in the cold. Out of desperation she killed Sylvia and then killed her husband.
 
In the wake of the murders, a strange man, Senor Maioranos from Mexico, approaches Marlowe. The detective discovers that this is actually his old friend, Terry Lennox. The affection Marlowe had for the lost man evaporates. Perhaps a goodbye is never enough. As Linda, who left her husband, said to Marlowe on her exit, saying goodbye is like slowly dying.



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