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The Lady in the Lake
by Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler's classic noir detective stories have a distinctive style now called "hard-boiled." The prose is crisp, even terse. The characters are well-drawn types, yet not stereotypes. The hero is world-weary, smart, street-savvy and sharp of wit; femme fatales, crooked cops, and sad bystanders abound.
In The Lady in the Lake, private investigator Philip Marlowe is asked to trace a missing wife. The trail leads to a lake cottage in the mountains north of Los Angeles. While talking to the caretaker on the lake pier, they see something in the water. It's a dead woman -- but not the one Marlowe is seeking.
As Marlowe traces his quarry back to L.A., he encounters a gigolo who knows the missing woman, but claims not have seen her in a month; a drug-dealing doctor anxious to avoid scandal over his late wife's suicide; and a local police force with a bad habit of setting up nosy p.i.'s. As Marlowe keeps digging, he begins to see signs that the two women are connected, and that the whole sorry mess leads back to one person.
I love Chandler, and Marlowe. If you haven't read any of these classic noir novels, don't wait -- grab a copy of any of these fine examples of mid-century detective fiction.
In The Lady in the Lake, private investigator Philip Marlowe is asked to trace a missing wife. The trail leads to a lake cottage in the mountains north of Los Angeles. While talking to the caretaker on the lake pier, they see something in the water. It's a dead woman -- but not the one Marlowe is seeking.
As Marlowe traces his quarry back to L.A., he encounters a gigolo who knows the missing woman, but claims not have seen her in a month; a drug-dealing doctor anxious to avoid scandal over his late wife's suicide; and a local police force with a bad habit of setting up nosy p.i.'s. As Marlowe keeps digging, he begins to see signs that the two women are connected, and that the whole sorry mess leads back to one person.
I love Chandler, and Marlowe. If you haven't read any of these classic noir novels, don't wait -- grab a copy of any of these fine examples of mid-century detective fiction.