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The Lady in the Lake
Raymond Chandler
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Description for The Lady in the Lake
Hardcover. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 182 x 26. Weight in Grams: 160.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
PENGUIN UK
Condition
New
Series
Penguin Essentials
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241978931
SKU
9780241978931
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About Raymond Chandler
Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction.
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