by Raymond Chandler · GALLIMARD · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070432974
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«La dame du lac» is a crime novel by Raymond Chandler, published by Gallimard in paperback (249 pages, in French).
Detective Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy Derace Kingsley to investigate the disappearance of his wife, Crystal. The case leads him to a small town where he discovers that another woman, Muriel Chess, has also vanished. Two disappearances that intersect in a web of deceit and secrets that Marlowe must untangle.
Fourth novel in the Philip Marlowe series, originally published in 1943; this French edition belongs to the Carré noir collection and dates from 1979.
For crime fiction readers and fans of classic private detective stories.
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.
