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"item_title" : "The Big Good-bye",
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"item_description" : "This take off on Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled detective novels is a metaphor-filled thrill ride to an explosive finish. As complex and earthy as the genre it parodies, The Big Good-bye provides dozens of laughs a page as its protagonist, a seedy ex-marine turned private eye who is still in love with his ex-wife, bumbles his way through a maze of red herrings and plot twists that would have Phillip Marlowe's head spinning. The Big Good-bye is a lark, but it is also an homage to a time in literature when every dark alley held a mystery.",
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Overview
This take off on Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled detective novels is a metaphor-filled thrill ride to an explosive finish. As complex and earthy as the genre it parodies, "The Big Good-bye" provides dozens of laughs a page as its protagonist, a seedy ex-marine turned private eye who is still in love with his ex-wife, bumbles his way through a maze of red herrings and plot twists that would have Phillip Marlowe's head spinning. "The Big Good-bye" is a lark, but it is also an homage to a time in literature when every dark alley held a mystery.
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- ISBN-13: 9781439236147
- ISBN-10: 1439236143
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: March 2012
- Dimensions: 8 x 5.25 x 0.54 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.59 pounds
- Page Count: 256
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