A man named Derace Kingsley hires Marlowe to find his missing wife Crystal, who has run away with a playboy named Chris Lavery.

No, he ignores the rules completely. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 6, 2016. More Marlowe with double-crossing and the usual twists and turns that I like/love in this series. Plus, enjoy 10% off your next online purchase over $50. Sign up to get exclusive offers, the best in books & more. As research for a novel I'm writing, I'm reading detective fiction and ripping off everything of value.

And who killed Muriel Chess?

But that's just it. Here it's a stiff femme fatale on the bed and she's only wearing nylon, 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.
More times in as many years. So we have to work with what we get...”, Which character has red hair?

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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 >> Marlowe over the line >> Marlowe wraps it all up and still fills like crap about it). He uses a lot of arcane terminology such as the word "perambulator" to describe people who are basically window shopping or sight seeing at Puma Lake where he ended up because he was hired by a busines. No Kindle device required.

1-Click ordering is not available for this item. 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. Save an extra 10% on almost everything & enjoy free shipping every day. 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 >> Marlowe over the line >> Marlowe wraps it all.

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One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be dead.

Several people in the area thought they had seen her, but her clothes and hair color varied from witness to witness.

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Her inability to look beyond her own needs will lead to tragedy and turmoil for all sorts of people—including Ferdie, the man who shares her bed, a police officer who is risking far more than Maddie can understand. It is a masterpiece! can this be read as a stand alone oris it better to read the novels of Raymond Chandler starting with the big sleep ? I came to reading this book because I needed something to read for my Literary Exploration challenge, Hardboiled genre. Here it's a stiff femme fatale on the bed and she's only wearing nylons -- a saucy image for the author in 1943 (when nylons were scarce), but it produces visual piquancy. Start by marking “The Lady in the Lake” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Bill himself dives into the water, and slowly brings the body up. Just writing about this book here makes me want to go back and read it again (for the umpteenth time). After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages that interest you. As usual, the plot is more tangled than a kindergartner's shoelaces, but the dialogue is snappy and witty and the characters are as colorful as a big box of crayons (the REALLY big box, with the built-in sharpener). The book was originally published in 1943, and I must say I was just astounded by Chandler's writing style. Laura is the author of What the Dead Know, 2016 New York Times Bestseller, Another Thing to Fall, After I'm Gone, and Wilde Lake. She had last been seen in the Puma Lake area in the mountains east of San Bernardino.

Novelists who write so damn well (and there are few of those) must sometimes tire of both hyperbole and the undersell too.

Strangely enough, when Marlowe goes down to Los Angeles to interview Lavery the second time, he finds his body in the shower. I never try to guess the solution, and memory is funny - the way I'll remember so much of the story but not the end. Refresh and try again. We’d love your help. It's not that this is a bad read by any stretch - it's head and shoulders above the best mysteries taking up space on the bestseller lists, and most of the mysteries ever published. Marlowe is ambivalent about the case, but the man offered him enough money to take the case and he had nothing else he was working on at the time. I enjoyed the book very much and will try to read other books Chandler has written. The number of dead bodies rapidly increases as Marlowe tries to get to the bottom of a very complicated mystery while dodging cold-blooded killers, corrupted cops (the level of corruption in Bay City seems to make that of Chicago during the Prohibition look pale and insignificant in comparison), or just people who like nothing more in their lives than to knock Marlowe out just for the fun of it.

Drawing on her own secrets, she helps Baltimore police find a murdered girl—assistance that leads to a job at the city’s afternoon newspaper, the Star.

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Outstand. Well that is what Marlowe is determined to find out, and he does.

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He had been shot five times; the first three missed him, the last two were shot close to his chest in the wall of the shower, and of course he is dead.

The search for a rich man's missing wife takes Marlowe out of Los Angeles to Bay City (Santa Monica) and Puma Point (Big Bear) with a brief stop in Riverside too. 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 have read a lot of the Agatha Christie novels, but somehow I missed the ones that were written by men. This is a story of a selfish and ruthless woman, who will go to any length to get what she wants.

Working my way backwards in time through the Philip Marlowe series, next up is, Raindrops on strippers and crisp apple gunshots. My fifth book read thanks to a Goodreads suggestion, this one from Alan Firestone.

To help you sleuth out a new read, we asked five of the season’s hottest... A couple of missing wives—one a rich man's and one a poor man's—become the objects of Marlowe's investigation. Cleo scolds the ambitious Maddie: You''re interested in my death, not my life.

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Any order is good. S... Would you recommend this product to a friend? I should probably slow down on calling Raymond Chander a god.