![]() ![]() Before he knows it, Marlowe is right in the thick of it Moose, who doesn’t seem to know his own strength, ends up breaking the bar manager’s neck and heads off with a gun leaving Marlowe to get drawn into the investigation. The scene is Florian’s, a ‘dine and dice emporium’, a place where Velma worked as a singer at the time of Moose’s conviction some eight years ago. He encounters Moose Molloy, a big bruiser just out of jail and on the lookout for his former love, Velma. During his pursuit, Marlowe stumbles upon something far more interesting altogether. In Farewell, My Lovely, Chandler’s second novel, the action opens with Marlowe investigating a run-of-the-mill missing-person’s case. In my other life, I would be Vivian from The Big Sleep, but that’s another book… 19, Penguin Books)Īh, how I love Raymond Chandler and his hard-boiled private investigator, Philip Marlowe. The hunch I had was as vague as the heat waves that danced above the sidewalk (pg. ![]()
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