  
by Raymond Chandler
Softcover, 379pp, 1988
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler is the latest selection for One Book, One Chicago (OBOC). Some of the previous selections for the city-wide book club were: To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee; A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry; and Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek.
Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he's divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.
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