The Long Farewell is a 1958 detective novel by the British writer Michael Innes.

[1] It is the fifteenth novel in his series featuring John Appleby, a senior detective with the Metropolitan Police.

The title refers to a quote from Cardinal Wolsey in William Shakespeare's Henry VIII.

While holidaying in Verona Appleby drops in on an old acquaintance, the Shakespearean scholar Lewis Packard.

The official police view is that Packard committed suicide with a revolver after being confronted with his two much younger wives who he had married bigamously.