"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."

Venturing far from his usual Los Angeles stomping grounds, private detective Philip Marlowe finds himself searching for not one, but two missing women. When a wealthy businessman hires him to find his estranged wife, the search leads Marlowe to a small town where he discovers the body of a woman in a lake. Is this the magnate's missing missus, or the caretaker's runaway wife? Harrassed by a corrupt police officer and set up as a murder suspect, Marlowe must prove his innocence and bring the true killer to justice.

Often called Raymond Chandler's masterpiece, The Lady in the Lake is the fourth book featuring the hardboiled PI Philip Marlowe. Written in 1941, the novel makes a number of references to the US involvement in World War II.

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