The Lady In The Lake
by Chandler, Raymond
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG+
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About This Item
NY: Pocket Books. VG+. 1946. 1st Printing. Paperback. Pocket Books #389, 1946. Stated first Pocket Books printing in. VG+ c ondition. Tiny rub marks to the corners and spine tips. Lamination on rear cover starting to peel at the outer edges. Book store stamp on th e title page. Tanning to the preliminary pages. .
Synopsis
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. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he's denying nothing – on account of the two bullet holes in his heart. Now Marlowe's on the trail of a killer, who leads him out of smoggy LA all the way to a murky mountain lake ...
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- Title
- The Lady In The Lake
- Author
- Chandler, Raymond
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Pocket Books
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1946
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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