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The Long Goodbye

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The Long Goodbye	comment	The Long Goodbye is a 1953 detective novel by Raymond Chandler, his sixth featuring the private detective Philip Marlowe.Marlowe's drinking buddy Terry Lennox flees to Mexico, leaving behind a dead wife and a lot of questions. Marlowe attempts to answer the questions, even though nobody wants him to and despite news coming from Mexico that anything he finds will be too late to help Terry, who has committed suicide. He also takes on a case involving Roger Wade, a bestselling novelist with a drinking problem. Only at the end of the novel is Marlowe finally able to say a proper goodbye to the friend he's lost.In 1954, the novel was adapted as an episode of the Genre Anthology series Climax!; Marlowe was played by Dick Powell, who had played Marlowe before in the film Murder, My Sweet. A film adaptation, also called The Long Goodbye,note (not a given in the history of Marlowe adaptations) was released in 1973.
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The Long Goodbye / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
The Long Goodbye / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Though Marlowe does have his more human moments, these mainly occur when he's been truly pushed over the edge. The rest of the time, though, he manages to remain completely deadpan even as he's being beaten up by crooked cops or having guns waved in his face.
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The Long Goodbye / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
The Long Goodbye / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: Marlowe. By this point in the series, he's positively acidic.
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The Long Goodbye / int_28e79337	type	Stepping Out for a Quick Cup of Coffee
The Long Goodbye / int_28e79337	comment	Stepping Out for a Quick Cup of Coffee: While Marlowe is discussing the case with two police officers in their office, the senior officer announces that they have to step out for a few minutes, before pointing out a file on his desk and saying that it contains five official copies of a document Marlowe is interested in, "Don't let me catch you looking at them." Marlowe of course opens the file as soon as they're out of the room. He also discovers that the file contains six copies of the document, and correctly infers that he's intended to take one copy and make appropriate use of it.
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The Long Goodbye / int_2b2abf36	type	Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense
The Long Goodbye / int_2b2abf36	comment	Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: The first time Marlowe sees Lennox, Lennox is so plastered he could not get into a Rolls-Royce. The attendant at The Dancers is not impressed.
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The Long Goodbye / int_2d60b137	type	Zillion-Dollar Bill
The Long Goodbye / int_2d60b137	comment	Zillion-Dollar Bill: Marlowe receives a "portrait of Madison" (a $5,000 bill) for doing a small favor at the start of the novel. The bill causes no end of trouble.
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The Long Goodbye / int_36135fb0	type	Official Couple
The Long Goodbye / int_36135fb0	comment	Official Couple: Marlowe and Linda Loring. Chandler specifically created the character to be the perfect match for a man like Marlowe (a sort of "Princess In Sour Dress" to his Knight in Sour Armor). Appropriately enough, she's the first woman we ever "see" Marlowe in bed with.
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The Long Goodbye / int_369a1bf6	type	Death Faked for You
The Long Goodbye / int_369a1bf6	comment	Death Faked for You: Terry Lennox's death wasn't a suicide — because he never died at all. His death was faked by a few gangster friends.
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The Long Goodbye / int_4067bd4d	type	Spirited Young Lady
The Long Goodbye / int_4067bd4d	comment	Spirited Young Lady: Linda Loring is a refined, dignified heiress who matches Marlowe's snark with some of her own, shares his Knight in Sour Armor approach to the world, and helps him a little in the investigation.
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The Long Goodbye / int_50b9b3d0	type	Crazy Jealous Guy
The Long Goodbye / int_50b9b3d0	comment	Crazy Jealous Guy: Mr. Loring seems to suspect everyone with a Y chromosome of trying to sleep with Linda.
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The Long Goodbye / int_582f5a70	type	This Is the Part Where...
The Long Goodbye / int_582f5a70	comment	This Is the Part Where...: When Marlowe is first questioned by Sergeant Green and Detective Dayton, he says "This is where I say, 'What's this all about?' and you say, 'We ask the questions.'"
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The Long Goodbye / int_607d4ada	type	Run for the Border
The Long Goodbye / int_607d4ada	comment	Run for the Border: Terry Lennox flees to Mexico, apparently to escape capture for a crime he's committed. Marlowe doesn't quite buy it.
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The Long Goodbye / int_68424916	type	Eating the Eye Candy
The Long Goodbye / int_68424916	comment	Eating the Eye Candy: When Marlowe first spots Eileen Wade, his narration enters a long excursus about how beautiful she is.
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The Long Goodbye / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Long Goodbye / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Terry Lennox apparently commits suicide after being accused of his wife's murder. The real murderer commits suicide after Marlowe makes it clear that he's figured out what really happened.
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The Long Goodbye / int_6d57a234	type	Lemony Narrator
The Long Goodbye / int_6d57a234	comment	Lemony Narrator: Marlowe both unconventionally describes people and isn't above Leaning on the Fourth Wall.
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The Long Goodbye / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
The Long Goodbye / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Marlowe and Linda Loring.
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The Long Goodbye / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
The Long Goodbye / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Roger Wade, and Terry Lennox. Both are, interestingly, based on aspects of Chandler himself. Marlowe himself would be considered an alcoholic by today's standards.
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The Long Goodbye / int_88dee3b3	type	Talks Like a Simile
The Long Goodbye / int_88dee3b3	comment	Talks like a Simile: A feature of Marlowe's narration. Lampshaded during one of Roger Wade's drunken rambles, when he complains about writers (including himself) overusing it.
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The Long Goodbye / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
The Long Goodbye / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Sylvia Lennox's Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith in the opening chapter.
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The Long Goodbye / int_8e20b0f7	type	Private Detective
The Long Goodbye / int_8e20b0f7	comment	Private Detective: Marlowe.
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The Long Goodbye / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
The Long Goodbye / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Eileen Wade. Played with a twist — she at first appears to be a Damsel in Distress who needs protection from her husband. Marlowe doesn't totally buy it, but is attracted to her anyway. She turns out to be quite manipulative and has a dark past.
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The Long Goodbye / int_934937b2	type	Bluff the Impostor
The Long Goodbye / int_934937b2	comment	Bluff the Impostor: When a woman is giving a confession that Marlowe doubts, she talks of dumping a suitcase full of incriminating evidence in a reservoir and Marlowe asks her how she got it over the fence. She blusters about adrenaline and then Marlowe reveals that there is no fence. After she breaks down he admits that he's never been there and really doesn't know about fence or no fence. He just thought she was lying.
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The Long Goodbye / int_95e7be81	type	Rich Boredom
The Long Goodbye / int_95e7be81	comment	Rich Boredom: A problem afflicting the social set that includes Sylvia Lennox, the Lorings, and the Wades. A visitor from New York describes them as "one great big suntanned hangover". Terry Lennox says much the same, at greater length.
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The Long Goodbye / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Long Goodbye / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: The Dancers, the club where the opening scene takes place, was also featured in The Little Sister. The Wades live in Idle Valley, an exclusive neighborhood that Marlowe previously visited as part of his investigation in The High Window. He comments on how it's changed in the years since.
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The Long Goodbye / int_a46ea5c1	type	LightFeminineDarkFeminine
The Long Goodbye / int_a46ea5c1	comment	Light Feminine Dark Feminine: Eileen Wade and Linda Loring respectively, particularly regarding the contrast in their introductions, plus Linda's openly wry personality.
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The Long Goodbye / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
The Long Goodbye / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: Terry Lennox leaves Marlowe with a $5,000 bill as payment for helping him get out of the country. Marlowe, believing he hasn't earned the sum of cash, spends the entire plot refusing to spend it. Its only significant uses are: to involve Marlowe in the second case; and so Marlowe can pay it back to Lennox, giving them an excuse to meet up again in the conclusion.
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The Long Goodbye / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Long Goodbye / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Marlowe.
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The Long Goodbye / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
The Long Goodbye / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Happens quite often.
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The Long Goodbye / int_c09b3ff3	type	Physical Scars, Psychological Scars
The Long Goodbye / int_c09b3ff3	comment	Physical Scars, Psychological Scars: Terry Lennox's experiences in World War 2 left him with physical scars (including some on his face, where he had to have reconstructive surgery after a serious injury) and significant mental changes.
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The Long Goodbye / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Long Goodbye / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: A drunk woman at a cocktail party quotes some of Christopher Marlowe's poetry (specifically, the invocation of Helen from Doctor Faustus) at Marlowe after learning his name.
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The Long Goodbye / int_c78e289b	type	Chandler's Law
The Long Goodbye / int_c78e289b	comment	Chandler's Law: As usual when Chandler himself used it, done with a twist. The fourth chapter ends with Marlowe answering his door to find a man standing there holding a gun — but the next chapter immediately reveals that it's Lennox, who's come to him for help, and just happens to have the gun for self-protection.
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The Long Goodbye / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
The Long Goodbye / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: Terry Lennox and Roger Wade are both based on different elements of Chandler's own life and personality. Neither is depicted as a particularly admirable person.
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The Long Goodbye / int_ca063422	comment	Disease Bleach: One of the first things that Marlowe notices about Terry Lennox is that although he's still quite young his hair is entirely white. Later, a character who knew Lennox before the War tells Marlowe that his hair wasn't white then, with the implication that it's a mark of his traumatic experiences during the War.
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The Long Goodbye / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Eddie, the cowboy cosplayer who is under Dr. Verringer's care.
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The Long Goodbye / int_cfbd1467	comment	Never Suicide: The novel features three suicides, and only the last — the murderer committing suicide to avoid arrest and imprisonment after being confronted by Marlowe — is what it appears to be. Roger Wade's apparent suicide was the murderer cleaning up a loose end. Terry Lennox's apparent suicide was actually faked so he could start over in Mexico under a new name.
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The Long Goodbye / int_d19343fc	type	Glove Slap
The Long Goodbye / int_d19343fc	comment	Glove Slap: At a cocktail party, Dr Loring slaps Roger Wade in the face with one of his dress gloves after accusing him of sleeping with Mrs Loring. Wade asks mockingly if he's being challenged to a duel, and that's the end of it, with everyone present seeming to feel that Loring's gesture was overly melodramatic and with nothing to back it up.
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The Long Goodbye / int_d4ba9971	type	Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit
The Long Goodbye / int_d4ba9971	comment	Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit: Discussed. After the news comes through that Lennox committed suicide after writing a confession to his wife's murder, Marlowe considers the possibility that he was murdered so that everything could be blamed on him.
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