Copyright © 1943 by Raymond Chandler

Copyright renewed 1971 by Mrs. Helga Greene

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published, in hardcover, by Alfred A. Knopf, in 1943, and, in paperback, by Vintage, in 1976. Also available in a print edition from Vintage Books: ISBN 0-394-75825-0.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Chandler, Raymond, 1888–1959.

The lady in the lake.

I. Title.

PS3505.H3224L3   1988   813’.52   1-50916

eISBN: 978-1-4000-3018-7

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