by Raymond Chandler · Bruguera · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788402064325
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«La dama del lago» is the crime novel by Raymond Chandler featuring detective Philip Marlowe, published by Bruguera in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
Philip Marlowe investigates the disappearance of two wives, one rich and one poor. The discovery of a woman's body in a mountain lake points to a rough and violent man, but the detective senses that appearances deceive and that the case hides a deeper plot.
Fourth novel in the detective Philip Marlowe series. Translation by Marcos A. Guerra. Libro Amigo collection, Crime Novel series no. 33.
For readers of crime fiction and classics of the detective genre.
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime. All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once.
