Book Review: 'The Long Goodbye'

from Baum on Books · host Joan Baum

It’s a vintage hardboiled detective novel, complete with greed, addiction, a mysterious death, and lots of colorful language. But WSHU’s Book Critic, Joan Baum, said Raymond Chandler’s iconic work, The Long Goodbye, and Chandler himself, are so much more.

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