London: Hamish Hamilton. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Yellow cloth, red titling. Spine ends slightly darkened/foxed. Some foxing, mostly to text block edges and endpages. Previous owner name to ffep. Slight spine lean. Slight separation between some signatures. DJ in mylar with price of 8s 6d has creasing/chipping to spine ends, toned spine, rubbing along edges, light soil, and small closed tears. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

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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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Bookseller: curtis paul books inc. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 17699
Title: The Lady in the Lake
Author: Chandler, Raymond
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1944

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