Could I choose Dirty Snow as my favourite Simenon over, say, the eerily cheerful The Man Who Watched Trains Go By, or the wonderfully claustrophobic The Strangers in the House?Īnd then there is Richard Stark: which of the Parker novels would I plump for, since pretty well all of them are simply superb? With this caveat firmly displayed, I shall say that Raymond Chandler seems to me the master of crime fiction, and that The Long Goodbye, if not the best or most technically accomplished of the Marlowe novels, is without question my favourite. Brief summary of The Long Goodbye Marlowe is driving his friend into Tijuana from the United States to avoid the authorities. The story centers on Marlowe, whose friend Terry Lennox has been accused of murdering his wife. 1 Chandler, in a letter to a friend, called the novel 'my best book'. The Long Goodbye was written by Raymond Chandler in 1953. Some critics consider it inferior to The Big Sleep or Farewell, My Lovely, but others rank it as the best of his work. Georges Simenon's Dirty Snow is a masterpiece, but there are probably dozens of Simenon's romans durs – "hard" novels, as he called them – that are as good, if not better. The Long Good-bye is a novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1953, his sixth novel featuring the private investigator Philip Marlowe. Since life is an ongoing project, I find it difficult, if not impossible, to choose an all-time favourite crime novel – there are so many I haven't read yet.
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