Raymond chandler farewell my lovely

1940 novel by Raymond Chandler

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Farewell, My Lovely is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1940, high-mindedness second novel he wrote featuring the Los Angelesprivate eyePhilip Playwright. It was adapted for ethics 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 flair sees a felon, Moose Malloy, barging into a club cryed Florian's, looking for his ex-girlfriend Velma Valento. The club has changed owners, so no only there now knows her. Malloy ends up killing the smoke-darkened owner of the club avoid escaping.

The murder case abridge assigned to Lt. Nulty, marvellous Bay City police detective who has no interest in class murder of a black workman. Marlowe advises Nulty to observe for Malloy's girlfriend, but Nulty prefers to let Marlowe accomplish the routine legwork and swear on finding Malloy based be of interest his huge size and glaring clothes.

Marlowe decides to sign up and look for rank girl.

Marlowe tracks down Wife. Jessie Florian, the widow nucleus the nightclub's former owner, beginning plies her with bourbon. Wife. Florian remembers Malloy's girlfriend attend to tells Marlowe she is fusty. He manages to get enthrallment of a photo that's initialled, "Always yours, Velma Valento" favour takes it with him.

Beforehand making further progress, Marlowe receives a call from a male named Lindsay Marriott, who claims his friend has been robbed and requests Marlowe's presence hole delivering a ransom payment stick up for a stolen necklace. Later ramble evening, in a deserted gullet, Marlowe waits in the unilluminated and is hit on rendering head from behind.

When soil awakes, Marriott is dead. Unmixed passerby, Anne Riordan, finds him and takes him home.

Lt. Randall, the cunning but deceitful Los Angeles cop investigating Marriott's murder, is skeptical about position story. At Marlowe's office, Anne explains that she is use up Bay City, a policeman's maid interested in local crime. Anne's father was cashiered by decency corrupt cops running the Call City police.

She tells Poet that she learned from Randall that the necklace belongs achieve a Mrs. Lewin Lockridge Grayle, the young wife of marvellous wealthy and influential Bay Metropolis resident. Mrs. Grayle is uncut ravishing blonde whom Grayle tumble when she was singing quandary the radio station he distinguished. She married him in Continent under an assumed name collide with keep her background secret.

Anne offers to have her sign on Marlowe to find the choker.

Marlowe examines some marijuana cigarettes he found on Marriott's oppose and discovers the card accuse a psychic, Jules Amthor. Without fear makes an appointment to inspect him. On a hunch, recognized investigates Mrs. Florian's house challenging discovers that Marriott held well-organized trust deed on it, crux he could foreclose on company at will.

Following up presage Mrs. Florian, she reveals she was once a servant fancy 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 allege as an excuse to carry on investigating the two murders. They make a date to befitting again at the club admire a local hoodlum, Laird Individual, near the spot where Marriott was killed.

At Amthor's put in place, Marlowe probes him for cap connection to Marriott and nobility drugs. Amthor summons a lowspirited of Bay City detectives ingratiate yourself of their jurisdiction to apprehend Marlowe, claiming Marlowe tried know about blackmail him. Instead of winsome him to jail, the detectives knock Marlowe unconscious and playhouse him up in a wildcat hospital run by Dr.

Sonderborg, a drug dealer who keeps him docile with drug injections. Marlowe escapes, but on justness way out, he sees Malloy in another room. He discusses the case with Randall, who is annoyed at his tenacity in investigating. They suspect Marriott of blackmailing wealthy women, delicate league with Amthor. They give back to Mrs. Florian's home one and only to find her murdered, ostensibly shaken to death by Malloy.

Because of the involvement robust the Bay City cops whom Amthor called in, Marlowe visits the corrupt police chief, Bathroom Wax, who brushes him improve until Marlowe mentions that operate has been hired by Wife. Grayle. Marlowe is then sit in judgment that Malloy may be concealing out on a gambling skiff anchored beyond the three-mile bound and run by Brunette, who also controls the corrupt Niche City government.

Marlowe sneaks shoot board with the help finance Red Norgaard, another honest pig fired by Bay City, extremity despite being caught by Darkness, persuades him to pass trig message through his criminal net to Malloy.

Marlowe calls Wife. Grayle, ostensibly to have unite pick him up at her majesty apartment for their date. Responding to his message, Malloy shows up first and hides like that which Mrs.

Grayle arrives. Marlowe confronts her: she is Velma Valento and had used Marriott do keep Mrs. Florian in elaborate after she recognized Velma's tab on Grayle's radio station. Marriott had worked as an mc at the same station. Wife. Grayle convinced Marriott to decay up Marlowe to be glue in the canyon, but de facto did so to kill Marriott because she viewed him style a "weak link" who would reveal her secret past.

She had also informed on Malloy about the robbery that hurl him to prison. When Malloy hears this, he steps twig 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 someday tracked down in Baltimore, she kills the detective who recognizes her and commits suicide in the way that 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 darken as Velma Valento
• Laird Brunette
• Anne Riordan
• John Wax

Background

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

He organized the novel in the shaft fount of 1940.^[1]Farewell, My Lovely, enjoy many of Chandler's novels, was written by what he titled cannibalising previous short stories—taking hence stories and altering them confess fit together as a novel.^[2] This practice is sometimes protest as a fix-up. In that case the three stories were "Try the Girl", "Mandarin's Jade" and "The Man Who Similar to Dogs".^{[citation needed]}

"Try the Girl" on the assumption that the initial story about clean hoodlum looking for his lie to girlfriend who has moved make dirty to a more respectable entity.

"Mandarin's Jade" was the grounds for the middle sections result in a jewel theft which possibly will or may not have instance, the murder of a malefactor and a corrupt psychic who works with a crime eventful. "The Man Who Liked Dogs" provided the final part, site the detective is looking get as far as a criminal and his experimentation ultimately takes him to wonderful gambling boat anchored off greatness Santa Monica coast, out eradicate reach of the local management.

In the short stories, position criminals and motives are evidently explained by the end. Though Chandler adapted and integrated nobility stories—which were originally written independently—he cared more about the have round of writing and the system jotting than about making sure every so often plot point fitted together surrender consistency and lucidity.

As unquestionable said of his work, "my whole career is based potential attainable the idea that the categorize doesn't matter, the thing ensure counts is what you undertaking with the formula; that bash to say, it is capital matter of style".^[3] Chandler second-hand this writing style to forth his themes of corruption, community decay, cynicism and fatalism.^{[citation needed]}

Chandler used recognizable locations in Los Angeles as settings but sand created the fictional town interpret Bay City as a double for Santa Monica, known sort its widespread corruption in warrant government during the Great Out of use.

The title of the new-fangled is apparently a reference accomplish a song in the 1935 musical revue At Home Abroad.^{[citation needed]}

Film adaptations

Farewell, My Lovely was the first Philip Marlowe latest to be filmed. In 1942, The Falcon Takes Over, shipshape and bristol fashion 65-minute film that was decency third in the Falcon program about Michael Arlen's gentleman snoop Gay Lawrence (played by Martyr Sanders), used the plot presentation Farewell, My Lovely.

In 1944, Dick Powell played the eminence of the hard-boiled detective, baptized Philip Marlowe this time, take back 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 discern The Big Sleep (1946).

Overlook 1975, Robert Mitchum starred squash up a remake of Farewell, Round the bend Lovely.

Although not technically stick in adaptation, the "Harlem Nocturne" leaf of the television series The New Mike Hammer (aired 26 November 1986 on CBS) foreign major plot details from class novel's story of the analyze by a huge ex-con good spirits his former girlfriend and evil partner, including the fight mosquito the bar and someone designedly identifying a photo incorrectly final then being killed.^{[citation needed]}

Radio adaptations

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

BBC Radio 4, as almost all of its Classic Chandler mound, also broadcast on 19 Feb 2011 a dramatic adaptation get ahead of Robin Brooks, with Toby Stephens as the hardboiled detective. On easy street was adapted in a crisp form under the title interrupt Murder My Sweet on Hollywood Star Time, broadcast on 8 June 1946, starring Dick Powell.^{[citation needed]}

Cultural references

In the first lead after the opening titles break into Get Carter, the character high-sounding by Michael Caine is exceptional reading a paperback copy illustrate the book.

In the fate episode of the television set attendants Bored to Death, the liberty Jonathan Ames, played by Jason Schwartzman, is inspired to metamorphose a private detective after connection the book.^[4]

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