The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler

The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler

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.

2 CDs. 1 hr 27 mins.

Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888-1959) es el gran maestro de la novela negra americana. Nacio en Chicago, pero paso la mayor parte de su infancia y juventud en Inglaterra, donde estudio en el Dulwich College y acabo trabajando como periodista freelance en The Westminster Gazette y The Spectator. Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, se alisto en la Primera Division Canadiense, que servia en Francia, y mas adelante entro a formar parte de la Royal Air Force (RAF). En 1919 regreso a Estados Unidos y se instalo en California, donde ejercio como directivo de varias companias petroleras independientes. Sin embargo, la Gran Depresion termino con su carrera en dicho sector en 1933.

Chandler tenia cuarenta y cinco anos cuando empezo a escribir relatos detectivescos para revistas baratas de genero negro, mas conocidas como pulps: Black Mask y Dime Detective. Sus novelas destacan por el realismo duro y la mirada social critica. En El sueno eterno (1939), su primera novela, presento en sociedad al impetuoso pero noble Philip Marlowe. Pronto la siguieron Adios, muneca (1940), La ventana alta (1942), La dama del lago (1943), La hermana menor (1949), El largo adios (1953) y Playback (1958).

Mantuvo una relacion estrecha y turbulenta con Hollywood, que llevo sus novelas a la gran pantalla y para cuya industria cinematografica trabajo de guionista entre 1943 y 1950. En 1958 fue elegido presidente de la organizacion Mystery Writers of America. Murio en La Jolla, California, el 26 de marzo de 1959.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780394758251
ISBN 10	0394758250
Title	The Lady in the Lake
Author	Raymond Chandler
Series	A Philip Marlowe Novel
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1988-08-12
Number of pages	272
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.