by Raymond Chandler · Bruguera, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788402082473
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«El largo adiós» is the crime novel by Raymond Chandler, published by Bruguera in 1983 in paperback (448 pages, in Spanish).
Detective Philip Marlowe befriends Terry Lennox, a war veteran married to a millionairess. When the woman is found murdered and Terry flees to Mexico asking Marlowe for help, the case seems to close with his suicide and a confession. But Marlowe, convinced of his innocence, keeps pulling the thread and discovers that the truth has many layers in the Los Angeles of the fifties.
It is the sixth novel in the series featuring detective Philip Marlowe. The translation from English is by José Antonio Lara.
Key work of crime fiction, essential for readers of Raymond Chandler and detective Marlowe.
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime. All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once.
