“The Long Goodbye” by Raymond Chandler. Pocket Books 1044 (January 1955). First printing. Cover art by Tom Dunn.
“She had six husbands, money – and one lover too many.”
From the back cover:
Philip Marlowe, private eye, knew that Terry’s wife, Sylvia Lennox, had millions and an uncontrollable passion for men.
“Did you ever find her with a man in that guest house?” he asked him.
Terry shook his head. “I never tried. It wouldn’t have been difficult. It never has been.”
“Lots of men, huh? But you went back and married her again.”
“Hell,” said Terry, “she’s been married five times, not including me. And one of them would go back at the crook of her finger. And not just for a million bucks.”
That was the night Sylvia was murdered, lying on the bed nude as a mermaid.
And, though he had only seen her once, the cops threw Philip Marlowe in jail on suspicion of murder.
“The Long Goodbye” by Raymond Chandler. Pocket Books 1044 (January 1955). First printing. Cover art by Tom Dunn.
“She had six husbands, money – and one lover too many.”
From the back cover:
Philip Marlowe, private eye, knew that Terry’s wife, Sylvia Lennox, had millions and an uncontrollable passion for men.
“Did you ever find her with a man in that guest house?” he asked him.
Terry shook his head. “I never tried. It wouldn’t have been difficult. It never has been.”
“Lots of men, huh? But you went back and married her again.”
“Hell,” said Terry, “she’s been married five times, not including me. And one of them would go back at the crook of her finger. And not just for a million bucks.”
That was the night Sylvia was murdered, lying on the bed nude as a mermaid.
And, though he had only seen her once, the cops threw Philip Marlowe in jail on suspicion of murder.