by Raymond Chandler · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582401341
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«The Lady in the Lake» is the mystery novel by Raymond Chandler, published by Penguin as a graded reader in paperback (48 pages, in English).
Private detective Philip Marlowe investigates the disappearance of Derace Kingsley's wife. The appearance of a body in a lake leads him to wonder whether she is dead and whether that corpse is hers; solving the case depends on untangling the appearances and secrets of those around her.
Fourth novel in the series featuring Philip Marlowe; the original was published in 1943. This 1998 edition is an intermediate-level graded reader with introduction and exercises.
Intended for students of English as a foreign or second language, and for readers with little reading experience.
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.
