Still very worth reading and not to be missed. But it is Marlowe, and the prose is the allure here, as always, and things manage to work out to satisfaction, although this one will leave you a bit puzzled. If you are looking for a good plot, take your pick as there seems to be several, each heading it’s own direction. There is a woman’s body, but it is not Crystal’s, and there are more people lying to Marlowe,and a couple of beatings to be handed out all around, but nothing daunts Marlowe’s persistence when he is on the case. The cops he meets don’t like him and make life very rough, but to Marlowe that’s just how the cops are, always looking for an easy fall guy on tough cases. Marlowe knows that he has been lied to by Kingsley but he doesn’t know what part of the fairy tale is the lie. So where did she go? And did she send the telegram or a yet unknown third party? And just what exactly is going on, or is there some plot against Kingsley that he has to defend against, a plot he can’t see yet. Strange Available to rent or buy Rent SD 1.99 Buy SD 9.Overall, a superior PI tale from one of the genres masters. Lady in the Lake Novelist Raymond Chandlers hard-bitten private detective, PhilipMarlowe, investigates the disappearance of two wives in a film noir1940s Los Angeles.

Kingsley meets up with the beau, Chris, who tells him he didn’t run off with Crystal. comment on the social relations and police corruption of the time. Kingsley, the husband, doesn’t much care about the wife, Crystal, and still doesn’t, but he now faces a problem. She did send him a telegram announcing she and her boyfriend were off to marry after her divorce. A rich woman skipped out on her husband a month ago. This is Marlowe on a missing person case that drags him out to Texas and other environs. Here we find our hero mostly on unfamiliar grounds, off and away from the L.A. The Lady in the Lake is Raymond Chandler's fourth novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe.The Lady In The Lake (1943) (Marlowe #4) by Raymond Chandler. 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. Marlowe knows he should feel empathy for the missing women, but as a detective, hes hear too many lies and seen too much deceit.

But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he's denying nothing - on account of the two bullet holes in his heart. A simple missing-persons case rapidly draws Marlowe (Robert Montgomery) into a deadly web of greed and murder. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything. Or so the note she left her husband says. Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a divorce and marry a hunk named Chris Lavery.

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired to find a missing woman. 'Everything was quiet and sunny and calm.

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