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First published in 1943, The Lady in the Lake is Chandler’s fourth detective novel featuring private detective Philip Marlowe. As usual, the story starts with Marlowe being hired to find a missing person—in this case, the wife of Derace Kingsley— Derace Kingsley had a voice you could have cracked a brazil nut on and a wife he'd not seen for a month. He'd got a telegram that talked about a Mexico divorce and he wanted Marlowe to take it from there, however when Marlowe found the guy she'd gone off with, he denied all knowledge. So it's off to the country cabins near San Bernadino where there's a dead lady underwater...