Lady In The Lake

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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 & 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 & 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 & died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen & 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" & " Trouble is My Business"."