by Raymond Chandler · Vintage Crime/Black Lizard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780394758251
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«The Lady in the Lake» is the crime novel by Raymond Chandler, published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard in paperback (272 pages, in English).
Detective Philip Marlowe investigates in Los Angeles the disappearance of two wives: one of a rich man and another of a poor man. The clues point to a divorce in Mexico and a possible gigolo, but Marlowe is not sure that either is still alive, and he is not paid to worry.
Fourth novel in the series featuring Philip Marlowe; the work was originally published in 1943.
For readers of noir and hard-boiled fiction interested in the investigations of private detective Philip Marlowe.
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.
