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Just finished The Long Goodbye after reading the previous ones in succession. I haven't read the last couple yet but I have heard it goes downhill from here. The Marlowe book that spans the longest timeframe -3, 4 months- with the most interwoven threads; the first time Marlowe really "gets the girl" explicitly (though I won't mention which girl it is) and the return of Bernie Ohls. This story really has it all and it's my favorite so far. Like all the best long running detective stories it's not only firmly based in places is set but has a sense of its own history- written 14 years after The Big Sleep, it visits some of the same places with the same characters and reminisces on how they used to be. We see Marlowes sentimental side and it really rings true. It's one of the few times in hard boiled fiction that a man does this much not for a pretty face or a big paycheck but just because a man bought him a gimlet a couple of times. My favorite so far.
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