An edition of The Long Goodbye (1953)

The long good-bye

by

  • ★★★★ 4.1 (17 ratings)
  • 78 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 25 Have read
The long good-bye
Raymond Chandler, Raymond Chan ...
Locate

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list
Notes
  • ★★★★ 4.1 (17 ratings)
  • 78 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 25 Have read
Notes

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Last edited by MARC Bot
March 17, 2026 | History
Edit
An edition of The Long Goodbye (1953)

The long good-bye

by

  • ★★★★ 4.1 (17 ratings)
  • 78 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 25 Have read

In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. And now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.

Publish Date
Publisher
Pan Books
Language
English
Pages
285

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

Previews available in: English

Subjects

Los Angeles (Calif.) Private investigators Detective and mystery stories Los Angeles (Calif.) - Fiction Mystery & Detective Political Hard-Boiled Fiction Mystery fiction American Detective and mystery stories General California Private investigators - California - Los Angeles - Fiction Los Angeles Marlowe; Philip (Fictitious character) Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character) Marlowe; Philip (Fictitious character) - Fiction Crime Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled California, fiction Marlowe, philip (fictitious character), fiction Los angeles (calif.), fiction Private investigators, fiction Edgar Award

People

Private investigators- Marlowe; Philip (Fictitious character)

Places

Los Angeles (Calif.) California Los Angeles

Showing 3 featured editions. View all 35 editions?

Edition Availability
Cover of: The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye
1988, Vintage books
in English - 1st Vintage Books ed.
Cover of: The long good-bye
The long good-bye
1979, Pan Books
in English
Cover of: The long good-bye
The long good-bye
1954, Houghton Mifflin
Hardcover in English

Add another edition?

Book Details

Edition Notes

Originally published, London , H. Hamilton, 1953.

Published in
London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.9/1

The Physical Object

Pagination
285p. ;
Number of pages
285

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL14992280M
ISBN 10
033025684X
LibraryThing
15087
Goodreads
952220

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15400581W

Source records

Community Reviews (0)

No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation