The Lady In The Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback Author Forename:Raymond

The Lady In The Lake, The Little Sister, The Long Goodbye, Playback Author Forename:RaymondCreator of the famous Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler elevated the American hard boiled detective genre to an art form. His last four novels, published here in one volume, offer ample opportunity to savour the unique and compelling fictional world that made his works modern classics. The Lady in the Lake moves Marlowe out of his usual habitat of city streets and into the mountains outside Los Angeles in his strange search for a missing woman. The

rocky spot on a coastal path

daughter of a prominent cabinet minister

set his sights on Cleveland

There's a lot to investigate

Dex has no idea that she's stepping into the web of the Barista Mafia and eccentric billionaires with no compunction about using force to get the most coveted coffee around

Maggie Bird's 'book group' is an unusual one - a group of retired spies living an anonymous life in the seaside town of Purity

They set off together

It belongs to the world-renowned author Irena Rey

though he doesn't quite know why

otherwise Edith Joan Burbidge Macintosh

the wife of one of his wealthy clients

calls her in the middle of the night saying that he needs help