The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, Book 4) by Raymond Chandler, Jonathan Kellerman
By Raymond Chandler, Jonathan Kellerman
The girl within the Lake is a vintage detective novel via the grasp of hard-boiled crime
Derace Kingsley's spouse ran away to Mexico to get a quickie divorce and marry a Casanova-wannabe named Chris Lavery. Or so the notice she left her husband insisted. difficulty is, whilst Philip Marlowe asks Lavery approximately it he denies every little thing and sends the personal investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. but if Marlowe subsequent encounters Lavery, he's denying not anything - because of the 2 bullet holes in his center. Now Marlowe's at the path of a killer, who leads him out of smoggy los angeles the entire strategy to a murky mountain lake . . .
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I stopped and stared but he walked on without me. I hurried to catch up. “Back when Byrdie and her mama first came to Piney Grove to worship, there was an old busybody in the congregation by the name of Ethel Cox. She had something ill to say about everybody. My mama was in charge of organizing the bake sale that year and she held a meeting at our house. Well, there wasn’t much talk about a bake sale that night. It was stuffy so Mama had opened the windows. I stood outside smoking and heard the whole thing.
He’ll never leave Bloodroot Mountain because the Cotters have lived here for generations, but I wonder if he ever wants to dust his hands of this place and move on. Millertown was the big city to me back then, before I went to Knoxville with Daddy once to buy a washing machine. Now I see it for what it really is, a country town with old houses and glass-sprinkled lots and the smokestacks of dirty-looking factories looming over everything. The buildings on Main Street are falling into disrepair but they still have character, with tall windows and painted brick and arched doorways.
One time I caught him off by hisself hid in the corn patch, reading a book of poems. His face got red as a beet and he flew so mad I thought he was going to fight me, just because I knowed he liked to read poems. ” Mr. Barnett talked about Myra’s granny, too. He said he could see why Macon was drawn to Byrdie, even though she wasn’t much to look at. She was brash and sassy and tough. “I seen her bury every one of her children and take to her bed for months at a time,” Mr. Barnett said. “But someway she always got back on her feet.