Farewell, My Lovely
Farewell, My Lovely is Raymond Chandler's second novel featuring private eye, Philip Marlowe. While still tight and concise, the prose in this one is stylized to the maximum, even with an odd reverie on a little pink bug. Marlowe manages to make friends with a couple of cops in this one -- a hard-nosed homicide detective, whose intelligence appeals to Marlowe and a somewhat crooked cop with whom he shares a conversation on the grey lines of morality. It's a very tangled case, which happily defies easy synopsis. Poetry with a blackjack. Other opinions (spoiler warning).
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