Chandler’s out of control lifestyle led to his dismissal while Lennox’ resulted in an identity change and life in hiding from the police. Chandler worked for a time as an executive with the Dabney Oil Company where he was well paid and enjoyed an opulent lifestyle filled with expensive cars and illicit affairs. Who the hell wants to be happy?” ( Chandler 479). When Marlowe questions Lennox about his choice to remarry Sylvia, Lennox says, “Price tag? There’s always a price tag, chum. Lennox was lured by the easy life of wealth that Sylvia Potter provided at the expense of his self respect. He led a platoon of men to their deaths at the hands of a German artillery barrage of which he was the only survivor, and was never the same again. Chandler had no visible scars, but was emotionally damaged by his experiences in the service of the Canadian Corps. He was subsequently captured and tortured by the Nazis. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. July 2005 sees a major relaunch of Chandlers Philip Marlowe series to tie in with Harrogate Crime Festival. Lennox bore a physical scar on his face that he sustained protecting other soldiers in his unit by carrying a mortar shell out of a foxhole. In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Like Terry Lennox Raymond Chandler was a soldier, Lennox in World War II and Chandler in World War I.
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