The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4) (Penguin Joint Venture Readers S.) (Bull's-eye)

by Raymond Chandler

Jonathan Kellerman (Introduction)

Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband insisted. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he's denying nothing - on account of the two bullet holes in his heart. Now Marlowe's on the trail of a killer, who leads him out of smoggy LA all the way to a murky mountain lake ...

• ISBN10: 0140108947
• ISBN13: 9780140108941
• Publish Date: 30 March 1989 (first published 7 September 1979)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 24 October 2011
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 304
• Language: English

Reviews

[Michael @ Knowledge Lost]

The Lady in the Lake is the tale of Private Detective Marlowe, who is hired to find a missing woman by her husband. Marlowe finds a woman dead in the lake of this couples cabin getaway, but it isn’t the same woman, it is the wife of the caretaker. With all his great detective skills, humor and wit; Marlowe attempts to uncover this mystery, with some interesting results.

I do have to admit, I’ve got a special place in my heart for all things written by Raymond Chandler; especially the Philip Marlowe series. I beleive this is the forth book I’ve read in this series, and i do plan to read them all. The Lady in the Lake, follows the standard Chandler format; Marlowe gets hired for a case that appears to be an easy job on the surfice, as he follows the case where ever it takes him, it become more and more complex.