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The Lady in the Lake

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241978931

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 181mm x 17mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 159g

  • RRP: £8.99

The Lady in the Lake

The Lady in the Lake is a classic detective novel by the master of hard-boiled crime, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

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 . . .

'Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph

'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times

'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241978931

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 181mm x 17mm x 111mm

  • Weight: 159g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious

    Robert B. Parker, The New York Times Book Review

  • Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since

    Paul Auster

  • Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude

    Erle Stanley Gardner

  • [T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision

    Joyce Carol Oates, New York Review of Books

  • Raymond Chandler is a master

    New York Times

  • Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye

    Los Angeles Times

  • Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence

    Daily Telegraph

  • Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . A great artist

    The Boston Book Review

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About the Author

Raymond Chandler

Raymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, but moved to England with his family when he was twelve, where he attended Dulwich College, alma mater to some of the twentieth century's most renowned writers. Returning to America in 1912, he settled in California, worked in a number of jobs, and later married. It was during the Depression era that he seriously turned his hand to writing, and his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six years later, when he was fifty, by his first novel, The Big Sleep. Chandler died in 1959, having established himself as the finest crime writer in America.

Raymond Chandler

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