![]() ![]() If you are looking for a good plot, take your pick as there seems to be several, each heading it’s own direction. There is a woman’s body, but it is not Crystal’s, and there are more people lying to Marlowe,and a couple of beatings to be handed out all around, but nothing daunts Marlowe’s persistence when he is on the case. The cops he meets don’t like him and make life very rough, but to Marlowe that’s just how the cops are, always looking for an easy fall guy on tough cases. Marlowe knows that he has been lied to by Kingsley but he doesn’t know what part of the fairy tale is the lie. So where did she go? And did she send the telegram or a yet unknown third party? And just what exactly is going on, or is there some plot against Kingsley that he has to defend against, a plot he can’t see yet. ![]() Kingsley meets up with the beau, Chris, who tells him he didn’t run off with Crystal. ![]() Kingsley, the husband, doesn’t much care about the wife, Crystal, and still doesn’t, but he now faces a problem. She did send him a telegram announcing she and her boyfriend were off to marry after her divorce. A rich woman skipped out on her husband a month ago. ![]() This is Marlowe on a missing person case that drags him out to Texas and other environs. Here we find our hero mostly on unfamiliar grounds, off and away from the L.A. The Lady In The Lake (1943) (Marlowe #4) by Raymond Chandler. ![]()
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