The Lady in the Lake: A Philip Marlowe Mystery

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. Reeves, Norman. First edition, first printing (stated, $2.00 jacket price). Jacket edges rubbed, jacket and endpapers lightly toned, 1 inch smudge on margins of four text pages. Binding tight and square, text clean and unmarked. 1943 Hard Cover. 216 pp. 8vo. Green cloth, dark green titles, Norman Reeves jacket art. Inspiration for the 1947 film starring Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan, Tom Tully, Leon Ames and Jayne Meadows. In The Lady in the Lake, hardboiled crime fiction master Raymond Chandler brings us the story of a couple of missing wives - one a rich man's and one a poor man's - who have become the objects of Philip Marlowe's investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be dead. Marlowe's not sure he cares about either one, but he's not paid to care.