num_pages: 216
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: Lonnie Morgan, Detective Dayton, Sergeant Green, Dr. Edward Loring, Dr. Verringer, Mr. Grenz, Howard Spencer, Dr. Lester Vukanich, Terry Lennox, Philip Marlowe, George Peters, Sewell Endicott, Eileen Wade, Linda Loring, Captain Gregorius, Mendy Menendez, Candy, Harlan Potter, Chick Agostino, Roger Wade, Bernie Ohls, Dr. Amos Varley
genres: Crime, American, Classics, Novels, Thriller, Noir, Mystery Thriller, Fiction, Detective, Mystery
ratings_count: 41252
places: California, Los Angeles, California
series: Philip Marlowe
awards: awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: CWA Best Ever
category: Crime Novel
publisher: Ballantine Books