Annotation
Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he's divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.
Awards
1955 Edgar Awards (Edgar Allan Poe Awards)
Characters
| Name | Marlowe, Philip |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Private investigator |
| Traits | Loner |
| Cynic | |
| Name | Lennox, Terry |
| Gender | Male |
| Traits | World War II veteran |
| Alcoholic | |
| Unemployed | |
| Name | Wade, Roger |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Trait | Alcoholic |
| Genre | Classic Noir Historical Mystery --Detective, Private --Hard boiled Suspense Fiction |
| Topics | Murder investigations |
| Setting | Los Angeles, California |
| Series | ||
| Philip Marlowe detective novel | ||
| 1 | The Big sleep | |
| 2 | Farewell, my lovely | |
| 3 | The High window | |
| 4 | The Lady in the lake | |
| 5 | The Little sister | |
| 6 | The Long goodbye | |
| 7 | Playback | |
| 8 | Poodle Springs | |
| 9 | Perchance to dream | |