The Lady in the Lake Author:Raymond Chandler There was a hard movement at my side and Bill Chess said, "Look there!" in a voice that growled like mountain thunder... — Languidly at the edge of this green and sunken shelf of wood something waved out from the darkness, hesitated, waved back again out of sight under the flooring. — That something had looked far too much like a human arm. — *****... more »****
A woman disappears, and Philip Marlowe, trying to find out what she might have done and what might have been done to her, steps into a world of evil.« less