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漫長的告別

各界推薦

各界推薦 一九五三年的第六部長篇，榮獲一九五五年美國愛倫坡獎年度最佳小說。 一個優雅有禮的酒鬼和一個貧窮高貴的私家偵探相遇，會發生怎樣一種誠摯而悲傷的友誼？藍諾士酒醉後被馬羅撿回，藍諾士稍後寄來一張五千美元的巨鈔做為感謝和告別，然而，一連串謀殺，卻跟這個告別綿綿不絕……

作者介紹

作者介紹 Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888 - 1959) was the master practitioner of American hard-boiled crime fiction. Although he was born in Chicago, Chandler spent most of his boyhood and youth in England where he attended Dulwich College and later worked as a freelance journalist for The Westminster Gazette and The Spectator. During World War I, Chandler served in France with the First Division of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, transferring later to the Royal Flying Corps (R. A. F.). In 1919 he returned to the United States, settling in California, where he eventually became director of a number of independent oil companies. The Depression put an end to his career, and in 1933, at the age of forty-five, he turned to writing fiction, publishing his first stories in Black Mask. Chandler’s detective stories often starred the brash but honorable Philip Marlowe (introduced in 1939 in his first novel, The Big Sleep) and were noted for their literate presentation and dead-on critical eye. Never a prolific writer, Chandler published only one collection of stories and seven novels in his lifetime. Some of Chandler’s novels, like The Big Sleep, were made into classic movies which helped define the film noir style. In the last year of his life he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. He died in La Jolla, California on March 26, 1959.

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