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by Raymond Chandler (Author), Jonathan Kellerman (Introduction) "The Treloar Building was, and is, on Olive Street, near Sixth, on the west side ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin; New Ed edition (7 Jul 2005)
  • ISBN-10: 0140108947
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140108941
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 16,295 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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 …

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Simply absorbing, 7 Feb 2003
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Philip Marlowe is hired by Derace Kinsley to find his young and reckless wife who has gone missing. From thereon the plot starts and the reader finds himself identified with the main character. Yet, The Lady in the Lake is not just a detective story, "une nouvelle noire". Chadler doesn't lose the chance to incorporate to his narration the poignant and sarcastic spirit of his hero, while himself mocks the morals of the American society of the 1940s from the point of view of an English romantic observer.
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4.0 out of 5 stars More than just crime fiction, 10 April 2002
A book that keeps the reader guessing. The plot is complex but flawlessly handled. The characters are realistic and well-drawn. The pace is fast, but subtly controlled. These factors make this book much more than the average detective fare that's served up by Chandler's imitators.
The descriptions and dialogue are characteristically astonishing and surprising. One character is described as having "a face like a gnawed bone", and there are plenty of other similes as good as that.
The dialogue is so well written that I found myself hearing the characters speak in their correct accent before Chandler specifically declares where they are from. He achieves this without recourse to writing in indecipherable dialect.
This book is very good, not maybe as outstanding as say, "The Long Goodbye", but it's better than most other detective fiction.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A cracking hard boiled crime novel, 21 Nov 2001
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Chandler has been over this ground before but The Lady in the Lake takes him out of the city and into rural mountains.The result is a contrast between his hero's city smart 'shamus'and the country cute lawman which is a sub-plot of its own that lends a pacy air to the main storyline.Marlowe is slicker and smarter than ever,but ,as usual ,makes errors which humanise and make the reader identify with him.We are shown the seedy side of the hustle lifestyle of '30s and 40's LA ,while silently respecting the humanity of the hero ,who speaks through the book in the first person. There are tough dames,weak rats and hard men side by side with the vulnerable and soft-all the characters are believable and Chandler portrays them in a way that makes them clear in the imagination.There are no tricks to the tale-the crime almost becomes secondary as the simple vices of people take controls of their lives .This is a great read,a hard boiled thriller which is as good as it gets and can be read over and over.
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