Starring Toby Stephens, this powerful dramatisation by Stephen Wyatt cannot fail to draw you into Raymond Chandler’s darkly attractive world of deceit, decadence and death. Then he watches as a woman comes out of the house, gets a car out of the garage and proceeds to stall it in the driveway. He notices the hibiscus that grows along the fence at the edge of the property has been severely cut back. Trying to juggle two increasingly tricky cases, Marlowe knows that if he takes his eye off the ball, he could end up dead. The first, from the June 24th pages, has Marlowe going back out to Idle Valley after Eileen Wade is dead. And if that wasn’t enough, Marlowe also finds himself babysitting an author to make sure he delivers his next book. First Lennox’s rich, adulterous wife is found murdered, then Marlowe is arrested, then Lennox himself turns up dead in Mexico: an apparent suicide with a signed confession by his side. So when Lennox shows up late one night, looking guilty and asking for a ride to Tijuana airport, Marlowe agrees - though he suspects he’s going to regret it. In The Long Goodbye, Marlowe forms an uneasy friendship with a drunk named Terry Lennox. California in the ’40s and ’50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily. Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world.
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