The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe series Book 6)

by Raymond Chandler

Sheriff Petersen just went right on getting re-elected, a living testimonial to the fact that you can hold an important public office forever in our country with no qualifications for it but a clean nose, a photogenic face, and a dose mouth. If on top of that you look good on a horse, you are unbeatable.

I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between the stars.