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Farewell My Lovely (Audio CD) Audio Book

Description:ISBN 0563494379 / Author: Raymond Chandler / Genre: Crime/Thriller / Narrator: Ed Bishop / Ed Bishop stars as Philip Marlowe in these powerfully atmospheric dramatisations of Raymond Chandler's novels about the cynical, world-weary, wise-cracking shamus whose honesty in a ... more

Farewell My Lovely (Audio CD) ... dishonest world sent him down the mean streets again and again in search of some kind of justice. Farewell My Lovely At six feet five, Moose Malloy was as inconspicuous as a tarantula on angel food and about as dangerous. But Marlowe never was the kind of guy to walk away from trouble when it slapped him in the face, and Moose's girl had disappeared, a mere eight years ago. All Marlowe had to do was find her...The Lady in the Lake Blonde, beautiful and wild, Crystal Kingsley had never exactly been the faithful little wife. But when she's missing for a month and a woman's body surfaces in an isolated mountain lake, murder-a-day Marlowe is back in business.

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 ... plastic neon lit world of cheap bars and lonely streets was perfectly captured. Farewell, My Lovely begins with Philip Marlowe being offered a case by a hulking ex-convict named Moose Malloy who has only recently come out of prison. Malloy is not the ideal client or someone you'd go out of your way to meet or work for but Marlowe hasn't had a case for weeks and so takes the assignment. Malloy is looking for his old showgirl girlfriend Velma and Marlowe begins his investigation by trying to work out who ran the club Velm...more

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Crowned ReviewFarewell My Lovely (Audio CD): Through a Shot Glass Darkly (1229 words)
by - written on 28/01/13 (Very useful, 89 readings)
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This is an audio version of Raymond Chandler's 1940 detective novel Farewell, My Lovely read by Ed Bishop. This was the second and perhaps the best known of Chandler's Phillip Marlowe books and while it wasn't a huge success when it was was first published Farewell, My Lovely is now considered to be a hard-boiled pulp classic. These books revolve around the hard-drinking loner private detective Phillip Marlowe, a streetwise and sharply dressed but rather broken hero who has a vivid sense of the absurdity and harsh reality of life. His smartass sardonic first person observations and Chandler's prose still crackle with life all these years later. Marlowe was everything ...  Read the complete review

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