Books with title The Long Goodbye

Private investigator Philip Marlowe is 42 years old and does not exercise. His sport is chess yet he does not play against anybody. He just replays games of chess masters and solves chess puzzles. His brushes with danger and death he just narrates matter-of-factly. In one scene a rich, powerful, mean-spirited guy comes to his office. After some tough guy dialogue Marlowe slugs the visitor which made the latter double up in pain while his bodyguard--certainly armed--is just outside. When Marlowe later meets the bodyguard he insults him on his face. Yet they left Marlowe unharmed.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, who he's divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe

Ed Bishop stars as Philip Marlowe in a powerful and atmospheric full-cast dramatisation of Raymond Chandler's classic noir novel. The first time Marlowe sets eyes on Terry Lennox, he is lying drunk in the passenger seat of a Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith. The next time, he's on Skid Row. After they share a few Gimlets, Marlowe thinks he seems like a nice guy, but he's had a hard life - his white hair and scarred face testify to that. Or could it be marriage to Sylvia Lennox that has turned him prematurely grey? Although beautiful and rich, she plays the field in a big way. Lennox says he has the promise of a job in Las Vegas, and Marlowe helps him out with the cost of the ticket. Two weeks later, he gets the money back, with a note from Lennox saying he is starting a second honeymoon with Sylvia. But the honeymoon turns sour, the dame ends up dead and Lennox turns up on Marlowe's doorstep in big trouble. He needs to get away in a hurry, and against his better judgement Marlowe agrees to take him to Tijuana. Soon after, the cops arrive, and Marlowe finds himself cooling his heels in the can, suspected of helping Sylvia's killer escape. And that's not the end of his problems, not by a long shot...

* For readers who loved Wonder and the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time this heartfelt debut will make you laugh and cry.* Written in the style of a diary, The Goodbye Bug is for adventure-loving readers young and old. Thirteen-year-old Christopher Haimes loves nothing more than spending time with his big brother Kirby. Together the boys share a mutual love of astronomy and dream of one day building their very own observatory. But Kirby hasn't been his usual happy self lately. A group of school bullies are determined to make his life miserable and when the bullying results in Kirby’s tragic death, the Haimes family is left devastated. All Christopher wants is for life to go back to normal and Mum and Dad to stop arguing.Then one night a mysterious parcel is delivered to the family home. Inside is an ancient Egyptian artifact - recently stolen from the British Museum - with a note that promises the chance of a lifetime. A chance for Kirby to come back to life. A chance to be a family again. But keeping it secret won’t be easy ... and saying goodbye might just prove to be impossible.