The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
RAYMOND CHANDLER
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The Lady in the Lake (1943)
A couple of missing wives—one a rich man’s and one a poor man’s become the objects of Marlowe’s investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be dead. Marlowe’s not sure he cares about either one, but he’s not paid to care.
Copyright © 1943 by Raymond Chandler
Copyright renewed 1971 by Mrs. Helga Greene
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published, in hardcover, by Alfred A. Knopf, in 1943, and, in paperback, by Vintage, in 1976. Also available in a print edition from Vintage Books: ISBN 0-394-75825-0.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Chandler, Raymond, 1888–1959.
The lady in the lake.
I. Title.
PS3505.H3224L3 1988 813’.52 1-50916
eISBN: 978-1-4000-3018-7
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