A review by arytaco
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler

4.0

Raymond Chandler’s “The Big Sleep” is a more engaging pulp tale, but his next trip into the Los Angeles crime underbelly, “Farewell, My Lovely,” may be a more vivid portrait of private eye Philip Marlow. His alcoholism is criticized, he’s described as both rugged and handsome and he takes quite a beating throughout this tale of corruption and romance. Once again, Chandler paints expressive pictures of nightlife and criminality, further cementing his legacy as one of noir’s founding fathers. If there were a Mount Rushmore dedicated to the style’s novelists, Chandler would be front and center.