Crime fiction master Raymond Chandlers fourth novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the ``quintessential urban private eye`` (Los Angeles Times). In The Lady in the Lake, hardboiled crime fiction master Raymond Chandler brings us the story of a couple of missing wives--one a rich mans and one a poor mans--who have become the objects of Philip Marlowes investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be dead. Marlowes not sure he cares about either one, but hes not paid to care.