NY: Vintage, 1976. NEAR FINE condition in FINE original pictorial paper wraps. SOFTCOVER. V-145. FIRST Vintage Paperback Edition September 1976. AS NEW, square and tight, UNREAD, NO creasing. Age toning to pages and inside covers. Featuring Philip Marlowe. Stored in Archival sleeve.. Reprint. Soft Cover. Near Fine/Fine Original Wraps.

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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: SCENE OF THE CRIME ® (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 002462
Title: THE LADY IN THE LAKE
Author: CHANDLER, Raymond
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine Original Wraps
Edition: Reprint
ISBN 10: 0394721454
ISBN 13: 9780394721453
Publisher: Vintage
Place of Publication: NY
Date Published: 1976
Keywords: NOISBN, L A Private Eye, SCENE OF THE CRIME
Bookseller catalogs: MEAN STREETS; AUTHOR A~B~C;

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WELCOME to SCENE OF THE CRIME, your online source for Rare and Elusive Books, Collectibles and Ephemera. WE SPECIALIZE in Mystery, Detection, and Related Genres, complemented by a wonderful collection on Travel, Cookery, Needlework, and Horse Racing. As EXPECTED, all items are guaranteed to be as described and signatures authentic. FINE is our highest grade. ALL Dust jackets are covered in archival protective wraps and Softcovers are housed in Archival sleeves. YOUR inquiries are always welcome, just ring or write.

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New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
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