by Raymond Chandler · Penguin Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140810370
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«Farewell, My Lovely» is the crime novel by Raymond Chandler adapted by Derek Strange, published by Penguin Books in paperback (64 pages, in English).
Private detective Philip Marlowe is about to abandon a routine investigation when a murder drags him into a gang of jewel thieves, a fortune teller and several more crimes, in a Los Angeles dominated by corruption.
Abridged edition. It is the second novel in the detective Philip Marlowe series and a level 3 graded reader from the Simply Stories collection, with a vocabulary of about 1650 words.
Suitable for students of English as a second language and for adult literacy programs.
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.
