EAN: 9780241956328

THE LADY IN THE LAKE - RAYMOND CHANDLER TASCHEN...

'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 holes in his heart. Now Marlowe's on the trail of a killer  who leads him out of
smoggy Los Angeles all the way to a murky mountain lake . . .The Lady in the Lake is Raymond
Chandler's fourth novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe.'Chandler's best novels carry the
crime story to levels of artistry that have rarely been matched' Daily Mail'Chandler 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

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