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The Lady in the Lake
by Raymond Chandler
I've never read classic hardboiled detective fiction before, and this was a great one.
Philip Marlowe is a private detective hired by a wealthy man to track down his wife, who left a note saying she was getting a Mexican divorce to be with her lover, except, he met her lover later, who claimed he was unaware of the Mexican divorce.
In the course of the investigation, the body of another woman is found in a nearby lake. Plenty of twists and turns reveal how the two murders might be connected, and slowly the killer or killers is/are revealed.
Raymond Chandler has some unique turns of phrase. One character, in telling off Marlowe, tells him to "go climb up your own thumb." In another scene, Chandler describes the sound of a man pocketing money "like caterpillars fighting." Characters sneer and snarl, the dialogue is snappy and snarky (and sometimes the 1940s jargon is a bit unclear), and there's also a bit of dry humor.
I thoroughly enjoyed this story and all it's twists and turns, until Marlowe reveals who did what to whom. It was exciting, suspenseful, and fun to sort of delve a little bit into the dark underbelly of WW2-era America.
Philip Marlowe is a private detective hired by a wealthy man to track down his wife, who left a note saying she was getting a Mexican divorce to be with her lover, except, he met her lover later, who claimed he was unaware of the Mexican divorce.
In the course of the investigation, the body of another woman is found in a nearby lake. Plenty of twists and turns reveal how the two murders might be connected, and slowly the killer or killers is/are revealed.
Raymond Chandler has some unique turns of phrase. One character, in telling off Marlowe, tells him to "go climb up your own thumb." In another scene, Chandler describes the sound of a man pocketing money "like caterpillars fighting." Characters sneer and snarl, the dialogue is snappy and snarky (and sometimes the 1940s jargon is a bit unclear), and there's also a bit of dry humor.
I thoroughly enjoyed this story and all it's twists and turns, until Marlowe reveals who did what to whom. It was exciting, suspenseful, and fun to sort of delve a little bit into the dark underbelly of WW2-era America.