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The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely

Starring Ed Bishop as Philip Marlowe

Raymond Chandler: A BBC Radio Collection

The High Window

Playback

Killer in the Rain

Trouble is My Business

The Big Sleep

The Lady in the Lake

The Long Good-bye

The Little Sister

8 BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations

Raymond Chandler: The BBC Radio Drama Collection

Poodle Springs

The Long Goodbye

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Farewell, My Lovely

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A warm day on Central Avenue, and Philip Marlowe's hunch about the man beside him is as vague as the heat waves that dance above the sidewalk. The way business is looking, even a hunch is enough. Moose Malloy stands six five and one-half and weighs two hundred and sixty-four pounds, without his necktie. After eight years in the pen, he wants little Velma back, and no cops or mobsters are ready to stand in his way. Marlowe's tough enough for the ride, but he can't help thinking - there's never been a happy ending to the story of beauty and the beast . . .

July 2005 sees a major relaunch of Chandler's Philip Marlowe series to coincide with Harrogate Crime Festival.

Farewell, My Lovely is a classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime. 
 
Eight years ago Moose Malloy and cute little redhead Velma were getting married - until someone framed Malloy for armed robbery. Now his stretch is up and he wants Velma back. PI Philip Marlow meets Malloy one hot day in Hollywood and, out of the generosity of his jaded heart, agrees to help him. Dragged from one smoky bar to another, Marlowe's search for Velma turns up plenty of dangerous gangsters with a nasty habit of shooting first and talking later. And soon what started as a search for a missing person becomes a matter of life and death . . . 
 
'Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph 
 
'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times 
 
'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess 
 
Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction. His books include The Big Sleep, The Little Sister, Farewell, My Lovely, The Long Good-bye, The Lady in the Lake, Playback, Killer in the Rain, The High Window and Trouble is My Business.

Raymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, but moved to England with his family when he was twelve, where he attended Dulwich College, alma mater to some of the twentieth century's most renowned writers. Returning to America in 1912, he settled in California, worked in a number of jobs, and later married. It was during the Depression era that he seriously turned his hand to writing, and his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six years later, when he was fifty, by his first novel, The Big Sleep. Chandler died in 1959, having established himself as the finest crime writer in America.

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