The Lady in the Lake

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The Lady in the Lake is a 1943 hardboiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler featuring private investigator Philip Marlowe as he unravels a complex mystery surrounding a missing woman and a body found in a remote lake.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf detective novel
hardboiled fiction
novel
adaptedAs Lady in the Lake
surface form: Lady in the Lake (1947 film)

Lady in the Lake
surface form: Lady in the Lake (radio adaptation)
author Raymond Chandler
centralTheme corruption
deception
identity
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
featuresCharacter Philip Marlowe
follows The High Window
genre crime fiction
hardboiled detective fiction
mystery fiction
hasAlternativeTitle Lady in the Lake
hasBodyDiscoveredIn lake
hasCriticalReception generally positive
hasDetectiveFigure Philip Marlowe
hasDetectiveSeriesNumber fourth Philip Marlowe novel
hasFormat hardcover
paperback
print
hasInfluenceOn later noir detective fiction
hasMissingPersonCase yes
hasMurderMystery yes
hasTitleCharacter unidentified woman in the lake
includesElement small-town corruption
urban crime
isPartOf 20th-century American literature
literaryGenre American hardboiled novel
literaryMovement noir
mainCharacter Philip Marlowe
narrativePerspective first-person
notableFor innovative plotting compared to earlier Marlowe novels
originalLanguage English
partOfSeries Philip Marlowe
surface form: Philip Marlowe series
precedes The Little Sister
protagonistName Philip Marlowe
protagonistOccupation private investigator
publicationYear 1943
publisher Alfred A. Knopf
setIn California, United States
surface form: California

Los Angeles
settingFeature remote mountain lake
timePeriodOfSetting early 1940s

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Philip Marlowe appearsIn The Lady in the Lake
Raymond Chandler notableWork The Lady in the Lake
The High Window followedBy The Lady in the Lake
The Little Sister precededBy The Lady in the Lake