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Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the 1940s and 1950s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily. In The Lady in the Lake, Derace Kingsley, a wealthy businessman, hires Marlowe to find his estranged wife Crystal, fearing that she may have got herself into a scandal. Rich, pretty, spoiled, and reckless, Crystal is all kinds of trouble rolled into one as far as Marlowe’s concerned, but he agrees to take the case and heads to Kingsley’s vacation home in Little Fawn Lake to find the lady. And sure enough, one turns up—drowned and almost unrecognizable except for her clothes and jewelry. But there’s a snag: the body is identified as Muriel Chess, the caretaker’s wife. With Crystal still missing and corpses turning up wherever he goes, the case soon turns into one of the toughest Marlowe’s ever encountered. . . Starring Toby Stephens, this thrilling dramatization perfectly evokes the atmosphere of Chandler’s fast-paced, absorbing novel.
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A couple of missing wives--one a rich man's and one a poor man's--become the objects of Marlowe's investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be dead. Marlowe's not sure he cares about either one, but he's not paid to care.
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"Chandler [writes] lke a slumming angel and invest[s] the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence." --Ross MacDonald
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- PublisherBBC Books
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1408427656
- ISBN 13 9781408427651
- BindingAudio CD
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages1
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