Saturday on Zenda. Saturday of Contemporary Classics. Saturday, in this case, devoted to The Lady in the Lake, the fourth work by American writer and screenwriter Raymond Chandler (Chicago, 1888 – La Jolla, California, 1959) dedicated to his star character: the detective Philip Marlowe. The novel appeared in 1943, thereby continuing the publishing pace that Chandler had set since 1939, when he released to the public his debut novel, The Big Sleep, which also marked the introduction of the Marlowe character. The key of The Lady in the Lake lies in the deepening of the detective’s character and his obsessive relationship with the truth, an entity always elusive and changing. The book, with translation into Spanish handled by Juan Manuel Ibeas Delgado and Carmen Criado Fernández, forms part of the catalog of the publishing house DeBolsillo.
The publisher themselves notes about the book: “In The Lady in the Lake (1943), the fourth novel by Raymond Chandler, the detective Philip Marlowe investigates the disappearance of two women: Crystal Kingsley, wife of a wealthy businessman, and Muriel Chess, wife of the caretaker of the Kingsley estate at Little Fawn Lake.
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Author: Raymond Chandler. Translation: Juan Manuel Ibeas Delgado and Carmen Criado Fernández. Title: The Lady in the Lake. . Publisher: DeBolsillo. Sales: All Your Books.