The Lady in the Lake
by Chandler, Raymond
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very slight lean, small spot to fore edge, gentle pressing to spine tips and front corners, still near fine in near fine, faintl
- Seller
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Denver, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Fueled by his patriotism and written shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Chandler makes several references within the narrative to America's involvement in WWII. Where most authors fill the back of the dust jacket's with accolades, endorsements, and self-publicity, Chandler uses the whole of the rear jacket pleading for his readers to purchase War Bonds and Stamps and in so doing, "buy a share in the miracle" that is funding the war.
It is rare to find a copy of this most notable and scarce work (only 6,000 in the first print run) in such a beautiful wartime jacket.
Bruccoli, A 4.1.a.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- The Hermitage Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 214527
- Title
- The Lady in the Lake
- Author
- Chandler, Raymond
- Book Condition
- Used - Very slight lean, small spot to fore edge, gentle pressing to spine tips and front corners, still near fine in near fine, faintl
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Date Published
- 1943
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