It's a surprising choice for the top spot, especially considering Chandler wrote seven Philip Marlowe novels, and the outlet had iconic crime reads likeMichael Connelly's The Lincoln Lawyer, Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, and Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, at its disposal.
Chandler's first Philip Marlowe mystery, The Big Sleep, made the list, landing at No. 5, but the coveted top spot ultimately went to Chandler's sixth tale.
View this post on InstagramThere was another deeply personal reason this novel felt different from the others in the series. Chandler was writing it while his wife, Cissy, was seriously ill, giving the story's themes an especially painful resonance.
A web of murder, disillusionment, and betrayal, The Long Goodbye follows Chandler’s infamous private investigator as he befriends Terry Lennox, a war veteran who’s married to a wealthy woman. When she turns up dead, Terry flees and leaves Marlowe to answer to the cops and, worse, the mob. Though the case is closed almost immediately with Lennox blamed for the crime, Marlowe senses there’s more to the story.
Winner of the prestigious Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1955, The Long Goodbye has since become a perennial bestseller, staying continuously in print worldwide and often represented in classic literature and mystery bestseller lists.
As for Chandler, the author himself has been described as a “lovable grump” and “hopeless cat-lover,” with the Marginalian also calling him “one of the most celebrated novelists and screenwriters in literary history.”
“I am the same man I was when I was a struggling nobody,” he said in 1957 per the outlet. “I feel the same. I know more, it is true, break all the rules and get away with it, but that doesn’t make me important. I may have written the most beautiful American vernacular that has ever been written (some people think I have), but if it is so, I am still a writer trying to find his way through a maze. Should I be anything else? I can’t see it.”
“Your hero, Philip Marlowe, is a real hero—he behaves heroically,” Fleming noted, speaking about Marlowe, who is tough, honest, and loyal.
Playback, Chandler’s seventh and final novel, was published inOctober 1958. Less than a year later, Chandler died. But his legacy lives on.
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