by Raymond Chandler · Alianza Emecé · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420640181
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«La dama del lago» is the crime novel by Raymond Chandler, published by Alianza Emecé in paperback (214 pages, in Spanish).
Detective Philip Marlowe is the protagonist of this crime novel by Raymond Chandler, rooted in the hard-boiled tradition. Criminal investigation and suspense sustain a plot representative of the author's noir fiction, with the characteristic style of his novels.
«La dama del lago» (The Lady in the Lake) was originally published in 1943 and is the fourth installment in the Philip Marlowe series. The Spanish edition, from 1974, belongs to the Selecciones del Séptimo Círculo collection.
For readers of noir and hard-boiled fiction, and for those who want to follow detective Philip Marlowe's investigations in order.
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.
