Farewell, My Lovely is a vintage novel simply by Raymond Chandler, the expert of hard-boiled crime.

Eight years back Moose Malloy and adorable small redhead Velma were consistently getting married – until somebody framed Malloy for armed robbery. Right now his stretch is normally up and he wants Velma back again. PI Philip Marlow matches Malloy one hot day time in Hollywood and, from the generosity of his jaded center, agrees to help him. Dragged in one smoky pub to another, Marlowe’s search for Velma turns up plenty of dangerous gangsters about Farewell My Lovely with a nasty habit of capturing first and speaking later. And quickly what started like a search for a missing person turns into a matter of life and death .

‘Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the initial sentence’ Daily Telegraph

‘One of the greatest crime writers, who set requirements others still try to attain’ Sunday Occasions

‘Chandler can be an original stylist, creator of the character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes’ Anthony Burgess

Best-known mainly because the inventor of the initial private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was created in Chicago in 1888 and passed away in 1959. A lot of his books have already been adapted for the screen, and he’s widely thought to be among the very greatest writers of detective fiction. His books are the Big Sleep, The Little Sister, Farewell, My Lovely, The Longer Good-bye, The Lady in the Lake, Playback, Killer in the torrential rain, The High Screen and Trouble is usually My Business.