The Long Good-bye

The Long Good-bye (1989) by Raymond Chandler – Penguin Books
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Meet Philip Marlowe, the wisecracking private eye who can’t stop helping doomed men with bad habits. In The Long Good-bye, Chandler’s most melancholic and literary hardboiled novel, loyalty is misplaced, friendship is a trap, and everyone lies—beautifully. Originally published in 1953 and reissued in this 1989 Penguin edition, it’s a noir classic soaked in late-night whisky, cigarette ash, and the slow rot of the American dream.

Our copy? It’s been around. Creased cover, yellowed pages, possibly a bloodstain—or maybe coffee. It smells like regret and old carpet. Perfect.

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Date is a guess.

Condition as new.

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