![]() ![]() ![]() This extended, intensely emotional episode is unlike any other in the Marlowe novels. In the end, Marlowe declines Red's offer of continued help, saying, "Either I do it alone or I don't do it." Red replies, "Sometimes a guy has to." The detective's isolation is understood, inviolate. "I told him a great deal more than I intended to," Marlowe admits. A "big redheaded roughneck" with "violet eyes, like a lovely girl," Red Norgaard suddenly emerges out of nowhere, provides critical assistance and muscle, then just as quickly disappears - but not before Marlowe reveals more to him about his own private demons than to any other character in the series. LATE IN RAYMOND CHANDLER’S Farewell, My Lovely, Philip Marlowe, the inceptive knight-errant detective, receives help from a mysterious stranger. ![]()
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