This is however vintage LA: the scent of rain on the tarmac, the lipstick wearing women, the cigarette ash everywhere and the guns, held aloft by one of the city’s tough guys. Racism is rife and rampant and shows the LAPD attitude to it at the time. This is a dark, dark city of Angeles, where the nightlife is one full of crime, death, drugs and guns. Seller Rating: Contact seller First Edition Used - Hardcover Condition: Fine US 64.50 20 off US 51.60 Convert currency Free shipping Within U.S.A. The suspect in the case is Moose Malloy, a small time criminal who is looking for a girl he used to know. FAREWELL, MY LOVELY Chandler, Raymond Published by Knopf, 1940 Seller: Abound Book Company, Overland Park, U.S.A. The setting and the characters in it belong to the city’s dark underworld. Farewell, My Lovely Raymond Chandler, Colin Dexter (Introduction) 4.11 37,403 ratings2,117 reviews This is one of Chandler's most famous crime novels featuring the detective Philip Marlowe. “Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.” One however described in Chandleresque terms: The Raymond Chandler Omnibus: The Big Sleep, Farewell My Lovely, The High Window and the Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler and a great. This novel reads like you’re sitting in a old classic american car with the top down riding around Los Angeles with the commentary of Marlowe in your ear showing you the sights of the city you would normally miss.And of course the social commentary that you only get when riding around in the underbelly of the gritty, raw and racist Los Angeles that this is.

1940s Los Angeles – a world of grime and crime if ever there was one.

Farewell my lovely 1940