CHANDLER, Raymond.

£1,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Long Good-Bye. First edition, preceding the US edition by a year, of the author's self-described best book. It won the Edgar Award for best novel in 1955 and was adapted into the 1973 film directed by Robert Altman, starring Elliott Gould.In The Long Goodbye, Chandler used social critique and a conscience-driven Philip Marlowe "to take the mystery story into a realm where it had never been carried before" (MacShane, p. 193).

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