The Lady in the Lake

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Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious -- Robert B. Parker * The New York Times Book Review * Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since -- Paul Auster Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude -- Erle Stanley Gardner [T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision -- Joyce Carol Oates * New York Review of Books * Raymond Chandler is a master * New York Times * Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye * Los Angeles Times * Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence * Daily Telegraph * Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . A great artist * The Boston Book Review *