Farewell, my lovely

the long version

Farewell My Lovely 1940 was Chandler's second novel and has been adapted for film three times. When Philip Marlowe sees a huge loudly dressed man casually throwing a bouncer out onto the the pavement as he goes into a bar he knows it's time to walk away so he follows him inside. The big guy is Moose Molloy recently released from an eight-year prison sentence and now on the hunt for his old sweetheart a red-haired nightclub singer named Velma Valento. Marlowe follows a trail which includes a stic