Farewell, My Lovely (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Raymond Chandler
- First Published: 1940
- Type of Plot: Detective mystery
- Time of Work: The late 1930’s
- Setting: Los Angeles and Santa Monica, called Bay City in the novel
- Principal Characters: Philip Marlowe, Anne Riordan, Mrs. Lewin Lockridge Grayle, Moose Malloy
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Love or romance, Suicide, Murder or homicide, 1930’s, California, Los Angeles, West, U.S., Detectives, Private investigators
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA, Bay City, CA
The Novel
As the novel begins, private investigator Philip Marlowe is standing outside a barbershop in Los Angeles, at a dead end on a case concerning a missing husband. His attention is caught by the sight of a huge, outrageously dressed man a few feet down the street. As Marlowe watches, the man swaggers into a building identified by its sign as Florian’s, a dining and gambling club. Before the double swinging doors can come to a stop, the body of a man hurtles out onto the street. Even as he concedes to himself that the incident is none of his business, Marlowe, his...
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