Farewell, My Lovely

By: Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Scott Brick

The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.

Philip Marlowe's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thieves, another murder, a fortune-teller, a couple more murders, and more corruption than your average graveyard.

Critic reviews

"Raymond Chandler is a master." --The New York Times

“[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.” --The New Yorker

“Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.” --Robert B. Parker, The New York Times Book Review

“Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye.” --Los Angeles Times

“Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist.” —The Boston Book Review

“Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandler’s prose. . . . He wrote like an angel.” --Literary Review

“[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision.” --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books

“Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.” —Ross Macdonald

“Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude.” --Erle Stanley Gardner

“Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.” --Paul Auster

“[Chandler]’s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world that’s like ours, but isn’t. ” --Carolyn See

Hard to beat the e original noir

It’s all about the language and the metaphors with Chandler. The cadence of his narrative makes it worth reading.

narration needs work.

good Chandler story but narration is off. needs to watch some Bogart for right attitude

Chandler and Brick

Raymond Chandler writes hard-boiled literature. He is the best at his craft. Scott Brick is the best at understanding and performing Chandler’s art.

A classic in many ways. Beware.

I picked up the Big Sleep on a summer special and enjoyed some of the campiness of that Black Mask classic. Chandler was a great storyteller. This book is much of the same however I was surprised by the easy use of racial slurs. Seemed unnecessary and an attempt to appeal to teenage pulp readers. The Marlowe character is complex view of era and would be interesting to hear the backstory develop on how he became a PI. A great listen otherwise, but I’ll probably pass.

Classic Raymond Chandler

It is hard to pick a better classic detective story author. The black and white films were just terrific.