num_pages: 237
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Lady in the Lake
titlecomplete: The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
characters: Philip Marlowe, Derace Kingsley, Bill Chess, Lieutenant Degarmo, Crystal Kingsley, Adrienne Fromsett, Dr. Albert Almore, Birdie Keppel, Muriel Chess, Mildred Haviland, Florence Almore, Chris Lavery
genres: Classics, Hard Boiled, Noir, Mystery, Novels, Detective, Thriller, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 24705
places: Bay City, California, Los Angeles, California, San Bernardino, California, California
series: Philip Marlowe
publisher: PENGUIN