Farewell, My Lovely

by Raymond Chandler

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Is Philip Marlowe black or white?

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Philip Marlowe, the protagonist of Raymond Chandler's series of "hard boiled" detective novels, is white. There may be some confusion about his racial identity because his stories often dealt with racial issues and tensions, even if sometimes in an indirect way.

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