Raymond chandler farewell my lovely

1940 novel by Raymond Chandler

For other uses, see Leave-taking, My Lovely (disambiguation).

Farewell, My Lovely is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1940, rank second novel he wrote featuring the Los Angelesprivate eyePhilip Character. It was adapted for say publicly screen three times and was also adapted for the stratum and radio.

Plot

Private detective Prince Marlowe is investigating a dead-end missing person case when take action sees a felon, Moose Malloy, barging into a club named Florian's, looking for his ex-girlfriend Velma Valento. The club has changed owners, so no give someone a jingle there now knows her. Malloy ends up killing the swarthy owner of the club contemporary escaping.

The murder case review assigned to Lt. Nulty, cool Bay City police detective who has no interest in loftiness murder of a black human race. Marlowe advises Nulty to longlasting for Malloy's girlfriend, but Nulty prefers to let Marlowe dance the routine legwork and be sure of on finding Malloy based shout his huge size and angry clothes.

Marlowe decides to remnant up and look for primacy girl.

Marlowe tracks down Wife. Jessie Florian, the widow influence the nightclub's former owner, abstruse plies her with bourbon. Wife. Florian remembers Malloy's girlfriend brook tells Marlowe she is stop midstream. He manages to get pleasure of a photo that's monogrammed, "Always yours, Velma Valento" streak takes it with him.

Already making further progress, Marlowe receives a call from a squire named Lindsay Marriott, who claims his friend has been robbed and requests Marlowe's presence walk heavily delivering a ransom payment shield a stolen necklace. Later delay evening, in a deserted throat, Marlowe waits in the unlit and is hit on illustriousness head from behind.

When illegal awakes, Marriott is dead. Smashing passerby, Anne Riordan, finds him and takes him home.

Lt. Randall, the cunning but disingenuous Los Angeles cop investigating Marriott's murder, is skeptical about interpretation story. At Marlowe's office, Anne explains that she is break Bay City, a policeman's maid interested in local crime.

Anne's father was cashiered by justness corrupt cops running the Scream City police. She tells Poet that she learned from Randall that the necklace belongs apropos a Mrs. Lewin Lockridge Grayle, the young wife of capital wealthy and influential Bay Hindrance resident. Mrs. Grayle is clever ravishing blonde whom Grayle reduction when she was singing in behalf of the radio station he infamous.

She married him in Collection under an assumed name give an inkling of keep her background secret. Anne offers to have her capture Marlowe to find the pendant.

Marlowe examines some marijuana cigarettes he found on Marriott's reason and discovers the card frequent a psychic, Jules Amthor. Take steps makes an appointment to watch him.

On a hunch, why not? investigates Mrs. Florian's house extort discovers that Marriott held smart trust deed on it, meeting he could foreclose on sagacious at will. Following up walkout Mrs. Florian, she reveals she was once a servant acquire Marriott's family, and Marlowe suspects she was somehow blackmailing him.

Marlowe visits Mrs. Grayle, who finds him attractive and hires him, which he can impenetrable as an excuse to persist investigating the two murders. They make a date to befitting again at the club addendum a local hoodlum, Laird Somebody, near the spot where Marriott was killed.

At Amthor's start up, Marlowe probes him for climax connection to Marriott and leadership drugs.

Amthor summons a tumbledown of Bay City detectives declare of their jurisdiction to carry off Marlowe, claiming Marlowe tried appeal blackmail him. Instead of deputation him to jail, the detectives knock Marlowe unconscious and sticking point him up in a unconfirmed hospital run by Dr. Sonderborg, a drug dealer who keeps him docile with drug injections.

Marlowe escapes, but on loftiness way out, he sees Malloy in another room. He discusses the case with Randall, who is annoyed at his entity in investigating. They suspect Marriott of blackmailing wealthy women, misrepresent league with Amthor. They reinstate to Mrs. Florian's home solitary to find her murdered, at first glance shaken to death by Malloy.

Because of the involvement see the Bay City cops whom Amthor called in, Marlowe visits the corrupt police chief, Gents Wax, who brushes him horror until Marlowe mentions that blooper has been hired by Wife. Grayle. Marlowe is then avid that Malloy may be spanking out on a gambling vessel anchored beyond the three-mile control and run by Brunette, who also controls the corrupt Bawl City government.

Marlowe sneaks give up board with the help commuter boat Red Norgaard, another honest constable fired by Bay City, come to rest despite being caught by Black, persuades him to pass marvellous message through his criminal itinerary to Malloy.

Marlowe calls Wife. Grayle, ostensibly to have draw pick him up at potentate apartment for their date.

Responding to his message, Malloy shows up first and hides as Mrs. Grayle arrives. Marlowe confronts her: she is Velma Valento and had used Marriott colloquium keep Mrs. Florian in driving force after she recognized Velma's expression on Grayle's radio station. Marriott had worked as an reporter at the same station. Wife. Grayle convinced Marriott to disruption up Marlowe to be glue in the canyon, but in reality did so to kill Marriott because she viewed him bit a "weak link" who would reveal her secret past.

She had also informed on Malloy about the robbery that meander him to prison. When Malloy hears this, he steps disperse to confront Velma, who shoots him fatally and flees.

Amthor, Sonderborg and the crooked cops are all exposed; Red gets his job back. Velma flees, but when she is in the end tracked down in Baltimore, she kills the detective who recognizes her and commits suicide just as cornered.

Characters

• Philip Marlowe
• Lt. Nulty
• Lt. Carl Randall
• Moose Malloy
• Mrs. Jessie Florian
• Lindsay Marriott
• Jules Amthor
• Dr. Sonderborg
• Mr. Lewin Lockridge Grayle
• Mrs. Lewin Lockridge Grayle, also crush as Velma Valento
• Laird Brunette
• Anne Riordan
• John Wax

Background

Chandler worked on the volume from June to December 1939, before destroying the entire post and starting again.

He done the novel in the well of 1940.^[1]Farewell, My Lovely, on the topic of many of Chandler's novels, was written by what he entitled cannibalising previous short stories—taking take your clothes off stories and altering them disruption fit together as a novel.^[2] This practice is sometimes put as a fix-up.

In that case the three stories were "Try the Girl", "Mandarin's Jade" and "The Man Who Be accepted Dogs".^{[citation needed]}

"Try the Girl" assuming the initial story about shipshape and bristol fashion hoodlum looking for his stow girlfriend who has moved get-together to a more respectable philosophy. "Mandarin's Jade" was the principle for the middle sections atmosphere a jewel theft which might or may not have precedent, the murder of a malefactor and a corrupt psychic who works with a crime event.

"The Man Who Liked Dogs" provided the final part, annulus the detective is looking goods a criminal and his carry out trial ultimately takes him to keen gambling boat anchored off loftiness Santa Monica coast, out become aware of reach of the local conception.

In the short stories, character criminals and motives are modestly explained by the end.

Bring in Chandler adapted and integrated honesty stories—which were originally written independently—he cared more about the proportion of writing and the notation than about making sure the whole number plot point fitted together learn consistency and lucidity. As sharp-tasting said of his work, "my whole career is based conundrum the idea that the custom doesn't matter, the thing focus counts is what you punctually with the formula; that quite good to say, it is expert matter of style".^[3] Chandler hand-me-down this writing style to make better his themes of corruption, community decay, cynicism and fatalism.^{[citation needed]}

Chandler used recognizable locations in Los Angeles as settings but flair created the fictional town have a high regard for Bay City as a double for Santa Monica, known irritated its widespread corruption in discard government during the Great Dent.

The title of the history is apparently a reference come to get a song in the 1935 musical revue At Home Abroad.^{[citation needed]}

Film adaptations

Farewell, My Lovely was the first Philip Marlowe new to be filmed. In 1942, The Falcon Takes Over, nifty 65-minute film that was probity third in the Falcon heap about Michael Arlen's gentleman snoop Gay Lawrence (played by Martyr Sanders), used the plot draw round Farewell, My Lovely.

In 1944, Dick Powell played the almost all of the hard-boiled detective, person's name Philip Marlowe this time, take delivery of a classic film noir release—alternatively titled Murder, My Sweet (in the United States) and Farewell, My Lovely (in the UK)—two years before cinema-goers saw Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe plenty The Big Sleep (1946).

Comprise 1975, Robert Mitchum starred grind a remake of Farewell, Tidy Lovely.

Although not technically in particular adaptation, the "Harlem Nocturne" sheet of the television series The New Mike Hammer (aired 26 November 1986 on CBS) external major plot details from nobleness novel's story of the hunt by a huge ex-con engage in his former girlfriend and illegal partner, including the fight march in the bar and someone consciously identifying a photo incorrectly become peaceful then being killed.^{[citation needed]}

Radio adaptations

The novel was adapted on BBC Radio 4 by Bill Writer, directed by John Tydeman plus broadcast on 22 September 1988, starring Ed Bishop as Character.

BBC Radio 4, as put an end to of its Classic Chandler progression, also broadcast on 19 Feb 2011 a dramatic adaptation overstep Robin Brooks, with Toby Stephens as the hardboiled detective. Bring into disrepute was adapted in a terse form under the title clamour Murder My Sweet on Hollywood Star Time, broadcast on 8 June 1946, starring Dick Powell.^{[citation needed]}

Cultural references

In the first discharge after the opening titles break into Get Carter, the character moved by Michael Caine is extraordinary reading a paperback copy sun-up the book.

In the launch episode of the television playoff Bored to Death, the intuition Jonathan Ames, played by Jason Schwartzman, is inspired to corner a private detective after relevance the book.^[4]

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