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The goodbye coast a Philip Marlowe novel

"Marlowe, against his better judgment, accepts two missing person cases, the first a daughter of a faded, tyrannical Hollywood starlet, and the second, a British child stolen from his mother by his father. At the center of The Goodbye Coast is Marlowe's troubled and confounding relationship with his...

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Main Authors: Ide, Joe (Author), Chandler, Raymond, 1888-1959 (Creator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
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Marlowe, Philip > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Private investigators > Fiction.
Missing persons > Fiction.
Fathers and sons > Fiction.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Mystery fiction.
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Summary:"Marlowe, against his better judgment, accepts two missing person cases, the first a daughter of a faded, tyrannical Hollywood starlet, and the second, a British child stolen from his mother by his father. At the center of The Goodbye Coast is Marlowe's troubled and confounding relationship with his father, a son who despises yet respects his dad, and a dad who's unable to hide his bitter disappointment with his grown boy"--
Physical Description:303 pages ; 25 cm.
ISBN:9780316459273
0316459275
Author Notes:Joe Ide is a Japanese American author, born in 1959. He grew up surrounded by the gangs and street crime of South Central Los Angeles, California. He enjoyed reading the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and had read them multiple times before he was in eighth grade. He is a college graduate and went on to get a graduate degree in education. Before becoming a writer, he worked as a school teacher, college lecturer, business consultant, and other jobs. One of those jobs was writing screenplays for major studios. He went on to write his debut novel, IQ, published in 2016. It won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel. His second book is Righteous, published in 2017.

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