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The Lady in the Lake (First Edition, inscribed to screenwriter Frank Partos)

The Lady in the Lake (First Edition, inscribed to screenwriter Frank Partos)

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The Lady in the Lake (First Edition, inscribed to screenwriter Frank Partos)

by Raymond Chandler

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED to Frank Partos on the half-title page: "For Frank Partos / with love / Raymond Chandler."

Partos and Chandler co-wrote the screenplay for "And Now Tomorrow" (1944), one of Chandler's few screenwriting efforts. As a screenwriter, Partos was responsible for some of the best genre films of the 1940s. His work includes "Stranger on the Third Floor" (1940), "The Uninivited" (1944), and "The Snake Pit" (1948), each groundbreaking in the areas of film noir, ghost stories, and insane asylums, respectively.

The author's fourth book, and the fourth Philip Marlowe mystery. Basis for the 1947 film, directed by and starring Robert Montgomery.

Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with moderate wear at the extremities.

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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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
The Lady in the Lake (First Edition, inscribed to screenwriter Frank Partos)
Author
Raymond Chandler
Book Condition
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First Edition
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1943
Keywords
Mystery and Crime
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