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Now his stretch is up, and he wants Velma back. P.I. Philip Marlowe meets Malloy one hot day in Hollywood and, out of the generosity of his jaded heart, agrees to help him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDragged from one smoky bar to another, Marlowe's search for Velma turns up plenty of dangerous gangsters with a nasty habit of shooting first and talking later. 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His client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. That's the simple part.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt becomes more complicated when Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck—they always end up dead. 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Trouble is, when Philip Marlowe asks Lavery about it, he denies everything and sends the private investigator packing with a flea lodged firmly in his ear. But when Marlowe next encounters Lavery, he's denying nothing—on account of the two bullet holes in his heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow Marlowe's on the trail of a killer, who leads him out of smoggy LA all the way to a murky mountain lake.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Lady in the Lake\u003c\/em\u003e by Raymond Chandler takes you on a thrilling journey filled with mystery and intrigue. 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