Farewell My Lovely - Softcover

Chandler, Raymond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345222024 ISBN 13: 9780345222022

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1973

Synopsis

A warm day on Central Avenue, and Philip Marlowe's hunch about the man beside him is as vague as the heat waves that dance above the sidewalk. The way business is looking, even a hunch is enough. Moose Malloy stands six five and one-half and weighs two hundred and sixty-four pounds, without his necktie. After eight years in the pen, he wants little Velma back, and no cops or mobsters are ready to stand in his way. Marlowe's tough enough for the ride, but he can't help thinking there's never been a happy ending to the story of beauty and the beast ...

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

From the Back Cover:

All she did was take her hand out of her bag, with a gun in it. All she did was point it at me and smile. All did was nothing...Moose Malloy stepped out of the dressing room, with the Colt .45 still looking like a toy in his big hairy paw.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0345222024
• ISBN 13: 9780345222022
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback