num_pages: 312
description: 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, who he's divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.
language: English
title: The Long Goodbye
titlecomplete: The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
characters: Mendy Menendez, Dr. Verringer, Sewell Endicott, Dr. Amos Varley, Lonnie Morgan, Howard Spencer, Dr. Lester Vukanich, Terry Lennox, Mr. Grenz, Candy, Harlan Potter, Linda Loring, Chick Agostino, Roger Wade, Eileen Wade, Philip Marlowe, Detective Dayton, George Peters, Sergeant Green, Bernie Ohls, Captain Gregorius, Dr. Edward Loring
genres: Fiction, American, Mystery, Thriller, Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Classics, Novels, Crime
ratings_count: 41263
places: California, Los Angeles, California
series: Philip Marlowe
awards: awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: CWA Best Ever
category: Crime Novel
publisher: Ballantine Books