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The Lady in the Lake.

The Lady in the Lake.

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The Lady in the Lake.

by CHANDLER, Raymond

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  • Hardcover
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NY:: Knopf,. Very Good. 1943. Hardcover. B00TJ01XP8 . A Philip Marlowe mystery. Made into the 1947 film. Stated first edition. Octavo, bound in the original light green cloth with dark green lettering. Moderate shelf wear and aging, else very good in a fine supplied facsimile dust jacket.; 216 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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Bookseller
Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
89891
Title
The Lady in the Lake.
Author
CHANDLER, Raymond
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Publisher
Knopf,
Place of Publication
NY:
Date Published
1943
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
B00TJ01XP8, MYSTERY, Books To Film, Philip Marlowe
Bookseller catalogs
Mystery;

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Cloth
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Jacket
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Octavo
Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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Facsimile
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Shelf Wear
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