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Farewell, My Lovely
by Raymond Chandler
Four and a half stars. Chandler continues to impress, even though my favorite remains The Big Sleep. Marlowe has some interesting things happen to him here: he's shot full of dope and locked in a nuthouse at one point and there seems to be some homoerotic subtext at one point, too. This entry in the Chandler canon shows a little bit of a softer side of Marlowe, while still retaining his drunken, stubborn, racist tendencies. If anything, Marlowe even seems to drink more in this one than he usually does. The moral ambiguities and grey areas of Southern California during the 1930s also seem to be amplified a bit more as well.