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The Lady in the Lake
by Chandler, Raymond
- Used
- Condition
- Book Fair: chipping to top corner front wrap and first few pages of text block. age wear to wraps and spine, text unmarked, bind
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
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
- Matthew's Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2813
- Title
- The Lady in the Lake
- Author
- Chandler, Raymond
- Format/Binding
- Mass market paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Book Fair: chipping to top corner front wrap and first few pages of text block. age wear to wraps and spine, text unmarked, bind
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Pocket Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- fiction, mystery, noir, Raymond Chandler
Terms of Sale
Matthew's Books LLC
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Glossary
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Mass Market
- Mass market paperback books, or MMPBs, are printed for large audiences cheaply. This means that they are smaller, usually 4...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...