{"product_id":"9780241956328-the-lady-in-the-lake","title":"The Lady in the Lake","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDerace 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Everything was quiet and sunny and calm. No cause for excitement whatever. It's only Marlowe, finding another body. He does it rather well by now. Murder-a-day Marlowe, they call him .'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrivate Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired to find a missing woman. Derace Kingsley's wife ran away to Mexico to get a divorce and marry a hunk named Chris Lavery. Or so the note she left her husband says. Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it he denies everything. 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 Los Angeles all the way to a murky mountain lake .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lady in the Lake\u003c\/i\u003e is Raymond Chandler's fourth novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Chandler's best novels carry the crime story to levels of artistry that have rarely been matched' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Chandler grips the mind from the first sentence'  \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain'  \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes'  Anthony Burgess\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40955274887265,"sku":"9780241956328","price":5.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32282213.jpg?v=1737351715","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780241956328-the-lady-in-the-lake","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}