Mark,
Great article, and, interestingly, I find I agree with you in
your visceral and critical reactions, not only to GOODBYE,
but to THE BIG SLEEP and FAREWELL, MY LOVELY, are very
similar to my own (which may be why I liked it). The
reminiscences about Bruce Taylor's reign at The San Francisco
Mystery Bookstore resonated, too.
I regret that the on-line class I used to teach on Chandler
at the Barnes & Noble site was limited to Chandler's
early work. I'd have loved the chance to talk about his later
novels, and particularly about GOODBYE, at length.
One criticism, and it's technical rather than literary. In
the article, there's an internal link to
"Bernie Ohls," but when you click on it you're taken to a
page that, though it has a short capsule description of
virtually every other character, major and minor, in the
novel, has no such description of Ohls. As the most
frequently recurring character, with obvious exception of
Marlowe himself, in the series (two short stories, two
novels, and a comparatively lengthy mention in a third
novel), I'd think he deserves at least a line of description,
particularly since his name is a link to the character
page.
JIM DOHERTY
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