by Raymond Chandler, Jennifer Bassett, Derek Strange, Richard Johnson · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140815269
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«Lady in the Lake» is the crime novel by Raymond Chandler adapted by Jennifer Bassett for Penguin Readers, in paperback (48 pages).
Private detective Philip Marlowe faces a murder case in a story of mystery and noir fiction. The edition adapts the work to a graded reading level intended for English learners.
Fourth novel in the Philip Marlowe detective series and part of the Penguin Readers collection, in an abridged edition in English and Spanish.
Intended for students of English as a foreign or second language, as well as for those who prefer simplified reading.
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.
