The lady in the lake
By: Raymond Chandler
Contributors: Penguin (Firm); Clays Ltd
Series: Penguin fiction
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [London, England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780241985021
Copyright date: 1944
Subjects: Fiction; Private investigators; Détectives; Romans, nouvelles
Description: "Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired to find a missing woman. Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a divorce and marry a hunk named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband says. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything. 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 Los Angeles all the way to a murky mountain lake ..."--
Notes: "First published by Hamish Hamilton 1944. Published in Penguin Books 1952. This edition published 2011"--Title page verso

"Cover photo © Weegee (Arthur Fellig) / International Center of Photography / Getty Images"--Back cover