The Lady in the Lake

Informationen zum Autor Raymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, but moved to England with his family when he was twelve, where he attended Dulwich College, alma mater to some of the twentieth century's most renowned writers. Returning to America in 1912, he settled in California, worked in a number of jobs, and later married. It was during the Depression era that he seriously turned his hand to writing, and his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six years later, when he was fifty, by his first novel, The Big Sleep . Chandler died in 1959, having established himself as the finest crime writer in America. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Raymond Chandler, Chandler Raymond, Jonathan Kellerman
• Assisted by: Jonathan Kellerman (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.11.2011
• EAN: 9780241956328
• ISBN: 978-0-241-95632-8
• No. of pages: 283
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Philip Marlowe; Philip Marlowe; Phillip Marlowe
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Los Angeles, Mexico, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Classic fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction, c 1940 to c 1949