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Original Title:	The Lady in the Lake
ISBN:	0394758250 (ISBN13: 9780394758251)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Philip Marlowe #4
Characters:	Philip Marlowe, Derace Kingsley, Crystal Kingsley, Chris Lavery, Muriel Chess, Bill Chess, Dr. Albert Almore, Mildred Haviland, Lieutenant Degarmo, Adrienne Fromsett, Florence Almore, Birdie Keppel
Setting:	California(United States) Bay City, California(United States) Puma Point, California …more Los Angeles, California(United States) …less

The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe #4) Paperback | Pages: 266 pages

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Title	:	The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe #4)
Author	:	Raymond Chandler
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 266 pages
Published	:	August 12th 1988 by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard (first published 1943)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Noir. Classics. Detective. Hard Boiled

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A couple of missing wives—one a rich man's and one a poor man's—become the objects of Marlowe's investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be dead. Marlowe's not sure he cares about either one, but he's not paid to care.

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The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4), Raymond Chandler The Lady in the Lake is a 1943 detective novel by Raymond Chandler featuring, as do all his major works, the Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe. Notable for its removal of Marlowe from his usual Los Angeles environs for much of the book, the novel's complicated plot initially deals with the case of a missing woman in a small mountain town some 80 miles (130 km) from the city. The book was written shortly after the attack on

I should probably slow down on calling Raymond Chander a god. Novelists who write so damn well (and there are few of those) must sometimes tire of both hyperbole and the undersell too. Look. This isn't my favorite Chandler or my favorite Marlowe, and the Great and Glorious Chandler doesn't deviate too far from his script (Rich, difficult clients >> wise-cracking PI >> dame >> cops >> drinks >> California >> dead bodies >> Marlowe close to the line

Crystal, Muriel, Mildred, Adrienne and Florence are the women displayed in Chandler's Hall of Mirrors, which begins with the simple case of a missing wife and quickly develops into four murders, plus a Dr Feelgood who feeds his patients drugs; and corrupt cops in Bay City, or Santa Monica, Ca., that Chandler knew all too well. I think he invented the cliche of a coshed character who wakes up with a dead body in the same room. Here it's a stiff femme fatale on the bed and she's only wearing

Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering silmite held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. THAT is why I am your king! Dennis: Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!The fact that I can't resist a Monty Python quote aside, the

Looking down into the deep waters of the small lake there is movement a hand... the murky image is unclear, concealing a secret which gives this book its title, The Lady in the Lake, Marlowe watches, his stomach is... not joyful, however appearances can be deceiving. The brutish husband Bill Chess, the village drunk is arrested for the crime, the victim his mysterious mate an outsider, Muriel has been wet for a month, so well... the difficulty in identification is very unpleasant for the poor

Marlowe but not as I remember him.I generally love Chandler's style and specifically love Marlowe as a wise-cracking hard-boiled PI but for me there was something not up to speed with this book.Aside from the fact that I knew exactly how the narrative would play out thanks to the mighty obvious use of the genre staple of portraits and doubles meaning every incident in between felt like a lazy attempt at placing red herrings there was so little in the way of great dialogue and internal monologue

This well may be Chandler at his very best! He not only does everything he usually does so incredibly well - the hard hitting, gritty and wisecracking Marlowe, the wonderfully sharp and evocative prose, the superb pacing - but the plot, a missing person case / murder mystery, is perhaps the most sophisticated and suspenseful of all the Marlowe tales. Full of twists and turns, and the largest and best developed cast of conniving, shifty and treacherous characters I've seen from Chandler.