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Farewell, My Lovely
by Raymond Chandler
I read The Big Sleep in college for a detective fiction English class; and I instantly fell in love with the hard-boiled detective, Phillip Marlowe. In Farewell, My Lovely Marlowe is back with his heavy drinking, chain smoking, wise-cracking, devil may care demeanor. I really liked this novel for the atmosphere it evoked of the 1940's smokey dark alley, corrupt govenmernt, mob ran Los Angeles where it was set. The mystery was engaging with twists and turns and red herrings galore. The characters spoke in 1940's slang that isn't used in the present day which made the plot hard to follow at times. Overall, this is a classic solid example of the hard boiled detective genre.