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Farewell, My Lovely
by Raymond Chandler
I read somewhere that Farewell, My Lovely began as three separate short stories that Chandler stitched into one plot, and boy does it show. Not that one should really be here for the plot. Some of the less faithful film adaptations actually clean up the plotline somewhat by gouging out an entire third of the book. Marlowe's wiseassery is where it's at, and this would be a fun read if not for the period racism, which so thoroughly permeates the text that I almost gave up several times.