by Raymond Chandler · EL PAIS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788489669550
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«El largo adiós» is a hardcover crime novel by Raymond Chandler, published by El País (511 pages, in Spanish).
Detective Philip Marlowe befriends Terry Lennox after an encounter in a restaurant parking lot; when Terry disappears and his wife Sylvia turns up murdered, Marlowe is accused of complicity and becomes embroiled in a web of deceit, corruption, and betrayal in Los Angeles.
«El largo adiós» is the sixth installment in the Philip Marlowe detective series; it was originally published in 1953 and won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel in 1955.
An installment in El País's Clásicos del Siglo XX collection, aimed at fans of crime fiction and classic detective stories.
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime. All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once.
