Marlowe is arrested for aiding a suspected murderer after refusing to cooperate with investigators, who want him to confess that he helped Lennox flee. On his return to Los Angeles, Marlowe learns that Lennox's wife Sylvia was found dead and that she had died before Lennox fled. He later finds $500 left to him by Terry. Marlowe agrees as long as Lennox does not tell him any details of why he is running.

In June, Lennox shows up late one night at Marlowe's home in 'a great deal of trouble' and needing a ride to the airport across the border in Tijuana, Mexico. They forge an uneasy friendship over the next few months, having drinks, especially gimlets, together at bars. Philip Marlowe meets a drunk named Terry Lennox, who has scars on one side of his face. It is late October or early November no year is given, but internal evidence and the publication date of the novel places it between 19. The novel opens outside a club in Los Angeles called the Dancers. It was later adapted as a 1973 film of the same name, updated to 1970s Los Angeles and starring Elliott Gould. In 1955, the novel received the Edgar Award for Best Novel. The novel is notable for using hard-boiled detective fiction as a vehicle for social criticism and for including autobiographical elements from Chandler's life. Chandler, in a letter to a friend, called the novel 'my best book'. Some critics consider it inferior to The Big Sleep or Farewell, My Lovely, but others rank it as the best of his work. The Long Good-bye is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1953, his sixth novel featuring the private investigator Philip Marlowe.

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