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The Lady in the Lake is a 1943 detective novel by Raymond Chandler featuring the Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe. Notable for its removal of Marlowe from his usual Los Angeles environs for much of the book, the novel's complicated plot initially deals with the case of a missing woman in a small mountain town some 80 miles (130 ...
- Raymond Chandler
- 1943
The Lady in the Lake. Raymond Chandler. 4.06. 25,516 ratings1,467 reviews. A couple of missing wives—one a rich man's and one a poor man's—become the objects of Marlowe's investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be dead.
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Across the lake tiny yellow lights began to show in toy cabins perched on miniature slopes. A single bright star glowed low in the northeast above the ridge of the mountains. A robin sat on the spike top of a hundred foot pine and waited for it to be dark enough for him to sing his goodnight song.
The Lady in the Lake is a detective novel published in 1943 by the American author Raymond Chandler. It features Chandler's trademark character, Philip Marlowe, the Los Angeles-based private investigator played by Humphrey Bogart in the 1946 film The Big Sleep and Elliott Gould in 1973's The Long Goodbye.
Aug 12, 1988 · The Lady in the Lake. Paperback – Unabridged, August 12, 1988. The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, starring Liam Neeson.
- Walter Scott
- $14.95
- Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
In The Lady in the Lake, hardboiled crime fiction master Raymond Chandler brings us the story of a couple of missing wives—one a rich man’s and one a poor man’s—who have become the objects of Philip Marlowe’s investigation.
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Mar 23, 2012 · THE LADY IN THE LAKE. by Raymond Chandler ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, 1943. bookshelf. shop now. Philip Marlowe, California private eye, in another bruiser of a tale when he is hired to find a missing wife, turns up a corpse in a lake, and comes up against a doctor who medicates with narcotics, a tomcat, and ladies with miscellaneous entanglements.
