Reviews for The Lady in the Lake
Review - Lady in the Lake, The
Typical Chandler. Excellent writing, great atmosphere and dialogue, but too complicated.
Reviewed by Roger on 2024-09-04 14:25:19
The Lady in the Lakeby Raymond Chandler | |
| Category: |
"Fiction - Mystery" |
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| Pages: | 266 |
| Year of Publication: | 1943 |
| Date Added: | 01/05/2021 |
| Date Read: | 09/04/2024 |
| Notes: | Detective Philip Marlowe is hired by Kingsley to find his wife, Crystal. She ran off with a man named Lavery, and Kingsley still loves her enough to want to know where and how she is. Marlowe goes to where Crystal was last seen, Kingsley's mountain cabin. He meets Bill, the caretaker, who's wife, Muriel, disappeared the same day Crystal was last seen. While there, Bill discovers the body of his wife in the lake. Marlowe's investigation leads him to a doctor, Almore, who's wife also died in mysterious circumstances. Then Lavery is found dead. Then Kingsley's wife shows up looking for money. Except, Marlowe realizes, she's not really Kingsley's wife. She's Muriel. It's Crystal's body in the lake. Then someone kills Muriel and tries to frame Marlowe. In the end, Marlowe figures out that Muriel killed Almore's wife, Crystal, and Lavery. She was killed by her ex-husband, a cop who Marlowe has been running into all case long. The cop loved Muriel but couldn't let her keep killing people, so he killed her and framed Marlowe. When Marlowe finds the truth, the cop kills himself. |
| My Rating: | 6 |