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The Lady in the Lake
Raymond Chandler
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Description for The Lady in the Lake
Paperback. Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. Series: Phillip Marlowe. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 216.
'Everything was quiet and sunny and calm. No cause for excitement whatever. It's only Marlowe, finding another body. He does it rather well by now. Murder-a-day Marlowe, they call him . . .'
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired to find a missing woman. Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a divorce and marry a hunk named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband says. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he's denying nothing - on account of the two bullet ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Series
Phillip Marlowe
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241956328
SKU
9780241956328
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About Raymond Chandler
Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction.
Reviews for The Lady in the Lake
Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious
Robert B. Parker
The New York Times Book Review
Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since
Paul Auster Raymond Chandler is a star of the ... Read more
Robert B. Parker
The New York Times Book Review
Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since
Paul Auster Raymond Chandler is a star of the ... Read more