The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler

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The discovery of the body of a woman in Little Fawn Lake at first seems unrelated to Philip Marlowe's search for the wife of perfume tycoon Derace Kingsley. However, as the plot progresses in the novel The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler, this gruesome discovery soon helps Marlowe to solve a chain of seemingly unrelated murders. Not only does Marlowe solve these murders, he also uncovers a dirty police...

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Raymond Chandler Biographies (2)

Raymond Chandler

5,994 words, approx. 20 pages

In the late 1940s well-known British author and critic Evelyn Waugh hailed Raymond Chandler as America's "greatest living writer." Poet W. H. Auden stated that Chandler's mystery novels "should be rea... Read more

Raymond (Thornton) Chandler

14,485 words, approx. 49 pages

Upon the publication of his first novel, The Big Sleep (1939), Raymond Chandler was hailed as one of the leading practitioners of the American hard-boiled detective novel, but he received virtually no... Read more

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