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    4 out of 5 stars 2,719
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  • 4 out of 5 stars

  • Detective Noir at its finest

  • By Aaron on 01-15-15
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  • The Lady in the Lake

  • By: Raymond Chandler
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  • Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
  • Abridged
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars 70
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    4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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    4.5 out of 5 stars 58

Hard-boiled detective Philip Marlowe follows the trail of a missing woman in Raymond Chandler's classic mystery tale. Experience Chandler's cool wit and taut language as his most famous character travels through the sunbaked streets of Southern California, unraveling a tangled web of murder and deception. Elliott Gould, who played Marlowe in Robert Altman's film version of The Long Goodbye, once again brings L.A.'s toughest private eye to life.

  • 4 out of 5 stars

  • Not Chandler's best. Convoluted plot.

  • By Tim on 11-27-16
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  • The High Window

  • By: Raymond Chandler
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  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars 63
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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    4.5 out of 5 stars 53

A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortune - the elements don't quite add up until Marlowe discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and the worst kind of human exploitation.

  • 1 out of 5 stars

  • Why abridged?

  • By H.E. Bond on 07-05-17
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  • The Little Sister

  • By: Raymond Chandler
  • Narrated by: Elliott Gould
  • Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
  • Abridged
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars 39
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 30
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars 30

The Little Sister, one of noir master Raymond Chandler's later novels, paints his darkest portrait yet of the underside of the City of Angels. Detective Phillip Marlowe is once again on the case, helping a "little sister", a sweet young girl from Kansas, find her missing brother in Tinseltown. A blackmailer and an ambitious starlet play key roles in this bleak tale, Chandler's savage indictment of the Hollywood dream factory.

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • A Great Marriage of Talent

  • By Niels J. Rasmussen on 12-10-12
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  • The Long Goodbye

  • By: Raymond Chandler
  • Narrated by: Elliott Gould
  • Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
  • Abridged
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars 98
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    4 out of 5 stars 85
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    4 out of 5 stars 83

Raymond Chandler began his writing career at age 45. His muscular, fast-paced style set the standard for American hard-boiled mysteries. He distilled the essence of life in Southern California in the 1940s and 1950s. In The Long Goodbye, private eye Philip 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, whom he's divorced and remarried. She ends up dead. Soon Lennox is on the lam, and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.

  • 1 out of 5 stars

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  • By Franklin Tonsoti on 09-15-16
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  • Playback

  • By: Raymond Chandler
  • Narrated by: Elliott Gould
  • Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
  • Unabridged
  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars 93
  • Performance
    4.5 out of 5 stars 63
  • Story
    4 out of 5 stars 62

Marlowe is assigned to tail classy, well-endowed redhead Betty Mayfield - a cinch, he thinks, until lounge lizard Larry Mitchell turns up dead outside Betty's hotel room a few hours after pawing her in a California club. Filled with Chandler's famed snappy repartee and starkly frightening scenes, Playback simmers with suspense as Marlowe tries to solve a tale of big money - and, of course, murder.

  • 5 out of 5 stars

  • It doesn't get any better than this!

  • By Old Hippy on 09-04-09

Publisher's Summary

Toby Stephens stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Raymond Chandler’s second Philip Marlowe mystery.

Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the ’40s and ’50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily.

In ‘Farewell My Lovely’, Marlowe has a chance encounter with a not-so-gentle giant outside Florian’s nightclub. Just released from prison, Moose Malloy is looking for his old flame, red-haired Velma Valento, who he last saw eight years ago.

Before Marlowe can blink, Malloy has smashed up the club, broken the manager’s neck and headed out of the door. Marlowe knows this mess is none of his business, but he has a hunch that he can find Velma. He just has to hope that curiosity doesn’t get him killed as well...Starring Toby Stephens, this fast-paced dramatisation is full of wisecracks and colourful characters, and retains all the charm and humour of Chandler’s stylish, suspenseful novel.
©1940 Raymond Chandler Limited (a Chorion company) (P)2011 AudioGO Ltd

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    4 out of 5 stars
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    5 out of 5 stars
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    4 out of 5 stars

A Great Re-Creation of a Lost Artform

Any additional comments?

I didn't expect them to be able to recreate the amazing atmosphere found in those old 40's & 50's radio plays but they proved me wrong. Everything from the cast to the music is right up to par with the high standards of that lost time. Definately worth the purchase if you're a fan of detective stories of ANY sort.

5 of 5 people found this review helpful

  • Overall
    1 out of 5 stars

Very Abridged

I purchased this wanting to hear all of Chandler's wonderful prose. Despite the indication that it was unabridged, this recording (and I suppose the others in the series, on which I wasted my credits, are simply characters spouting dialogue without the full unabridged prose. A huge disappointment. I couldn't listen to it.

5 of 7 people found this review helpful

  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    3 out of 5 stars
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    3 out of 5 stars
  • William
  • New Bedford, MA, United States
  • 07-13-13

Why did they change the story?

Would you try another book from Raymond Chandler and/or the narrators?

All their Chandler is a travesty here at audible.

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

I would have told the fricken' story to make it more enjoyable.

Did the narrators do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

Considering they are Brits, I guess the voice actors were OK.

Do you think Raymond Chandler: Farewell My Lovely (Dramatised) needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

No follow up from these idiots, please.

Any additional comments?

Get it unabridged and I'll buy it.

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
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    5 out of 5 stars
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    5 out of 5 stars
  • thomas
  • United States
  • 12-06-11

GREAT ADAPTATION OF A CLASSIC

HERE IS WHAT IS PROBABLY RAYMOND CHANDLER'S GREATEST MARLOW EPIC. IT HAS BEEN ADAPTED FOR THE BIG SCREEN MANY TIMES, SOME SUCCESSFUL, SOME NOT SO MUCH; AND NOW HERE IS THIS FINE PRODUCTION THAT IS AVAILABLE ON AUDIBLE; AND IT HITS EVERY NOTE PERFECTLY. THIS IS A DRAMATISED PRODUCTION OF THE ORIGINAL MATERIAL, AND HAS A WONDERFUL CAST OF CHARACTERS. BETTER THAN ANY OLD TIME RADIO ADAPTATION, BECAUSE IT STILL RETAINS ALL THE COLORFUL PROSE OF CHANDLER'S ORIGINAL NOVEL. AN EXCELLENT WAY TO SPEND SOME TIME IN THE COMPANY OF PRIVATE EYES, GANGSTERS, AND DAMES.

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    5 out of 5 stars
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    5 out of 5 stars
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    4 out of 5 stars
  • Marek
  • Kraków, Poland
  • 01-25-13

Marlow the Great

What did you love best about Raymond Chandler: Farewell My Lovely (Dramatised)?

All the atmosphere which was perfectly mirrored in the audiobook. Actors that performed voices were really good. Also sound effects build perfectly the right circumstances feeling

What was one of the most memorable moments of Raymond Chandler: Farewell My Lovely (Dramatised)?

Every part of that book for me is memorable

Any additional comments?

It is a pity that it's abbriged. With love I would listen to the whole book made in the same manner. This is why I did not put 5 stars but 4

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  • Peter Chistopher Franck
  • 03-20-11

Absolutely rotten!

The title and the description of Moose Malloy '... he was about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel-food ...' are practically the only things that are originally Chandler.
I find it a caricature of the genuine article.

1 of 5 people found this review helpful