– Marlowe gets threatened with a gun, to which he offers an array of wisecracks in response. – Marlowe pokes his nose into situations he knows he shouldn’t, and gets the crap beaten out of him as a result. – The cops try to throw Marlowe off the case by threatening him or calling him a ‘shamus.’ She comes onto him but he staunchly rebukes her advances. So in your typical Marlowe detective novel, the following things are certain to occur at some point:
Having read it now, I can’t say I agree.Ĭhandler creates his own set of norms and stereotypes which, while initially unusual, eventually wear out from use.
Ballard considered it his favourite Chandler novel. Certainly not as famous as The Big Sleep or The Long Goodbye, it nevertheless came highly recommended to me on the basis that J. First published in 1943, The Lady in the Lake is the fourth Philip Marlowe novel, and my fourth overall.
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