The Long Goodbye (1953) is a milestone in the genre. This novel demonstrated for the
 first time that hard-boiled fiction could serve as a vehicle for social comment and 
critique. While the apparent plot is slower paced and less metaphoric than Chandler's 
previous novels, the revealed plot shows him using his own life as a material, an 
autobiographical turn that prepared the way for Ross Macdonald.Marlowe meets and befriends
 English expatriate Terry Lennox, a drunk who has been abandoned by his ex-wife Sylvia,
 at The Dancers Club. Months later he spots Lennox drunk again, runs him home, and ...
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