Farewell, My Lovely is Raymond Chandler's second novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe. And soon what started as a search for a missing person becomes a matter of life and death.
Dragged from one smoky bar to another, Marlowe's search for Velma turns up plenty of gangsters with a nasty habit of shooting first and talking later. Marlowe meets Malloy one hot day in Hollywood and, out of the generosity of his jaded heart, agrees to help. Eight years ago Moose Malloy and cute little redhead Velma were getting married - until Malloy was framed for armed robbery. I put them on and went out of the room' Cynical Los Angeles Private Investigator Philip Marlowe always falls for a sob story. 'I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country.
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