Book description
The Lady in the Lake is a classic detective novel by the
master of hard-boiled crime
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. But when Marlowe next
encounters Lavery, he's denying nothing - on account of the two bullet
holes in his heart. Now Marlowe's on the trail of a killer, who leads
him out of smoggy LA all the way to a murky mountain lake . . .
'Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first
sentence' Daily Telegraph
'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still
try to attain' Sunday Times
'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal
as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess
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. His books include The Big Sleep, The Little
Sister, Farewell, My Lovely, The Long Good-bye,
The Lady in the Lake, Playback, Killer in the
Rain, The High Window and Trouble is My Business.
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.
