Free The Lady In The Lake (BBC Radio Full Cast Drama Starring Toby Stephens) Ebooks To Download

                
              
Free 
The Lady In The Lake (BBC Radio Full Cast Drama Starring Toby Stephens) Ebooks To Download
[BBC Radio Full Cast Drama starring Toby Stephens] Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the 40s and 50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily. Derace Kingsley, a wealthy businessman, hires Marlowe to find his estranged wife Crystal, fearing that she may have got herself into a scandal. Rich, pretty, spoiled, and reckless, Crystal is all kinds of trouble rolled into one as far as Marlowes concerned, but he agrees to take the case and heads to Kingsleys vacation home in Little Fawn Lake to find the lady. And sure enough, one turns updrowned and almost unrecognizable except for her clothes and jewelry. But theres a snag: the body is identified as Muriel Chess, the caretakers wife. With Crystal still missing and corpses turning up wherever he goes, the case soon turns into one of the toughest Marlowes ever encountered.Starring Toby Stephens, this thrilling dramatization perfectly evokes the atmosphere of Chandlers fast-paced, absorbing novel.
Series: BBC Radio
Audio CD: 1 pages
Publisher: AudioGO; Audio Theater edition (May 1, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1408427656
ISBN-13: 978-1408427651
Product Dimensions:  5 x 12 x 5.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
Average Customer Review:  4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (150 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #3,646,400 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)   #16 in Books > Books on CD > Authors, A-Z > ( C ) > Chandler, Raymond   #7089 in Books > Books on CD > Mystery & Thrillers   #11563 in Books > Books on CD > Literature & Fiction > Unabridged
THE LADY IN THE LAKE is one of Raymond Chandler's weaker Philip Marlowe novels, if not the weakest. (I say "weakest" as opposed to "worst," because, to paraphrase the cliche, reading Chandler is a bit like sex: Even when it's bad, it's still pretty good.) But that's just it. It's not that this is a bad read by any stretch - it's head and shoulders above the best mysteries taking up space on the bestseller lists, and most of the mysteries ever published. But, because this is Chandler, it's held to a higher standard than disposable airline reads, and by that yardstick, it falls short.The story of this (the first Marlowe novel written after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor), like all in the series, starts simply enough: Our Hero is hired by a wealthy businessman to find his missing wife. And like all Marlowe stories, the case soon becomes much more complicated, leading Marlowe on a trail of twists and turns through some of the darkest shadows of his world until, at last, all is revealed.It is a fun trail to follow for the reader, if not always for Marlowe. Still, it doesn't match the intense intricacy of FAREWELL, MY LOVELY nor the lurid seductiveness of THE BIG SLEEP - both among the classics of 20th century literature. It even misses the layering of THE HIGH WINDOW, leaving a fun read without as much depth. Worse, the twists, while they might surprise or confuse readers fed on the whodunit simplicity of Agatha Christie, are, for devoted Chandlerites, more obvious. I guessed the titular lady's secret soon after she was found in the lake, and it was not too difficult to tie in several - although, I admit, not all - later twists.Still, Chandler is Chandler. His dry, intoxicating prose is here, as is his mastery of characterization.
The Lady in the Lake (BBC Radio Full Cast Drama starring Toby Stephens) Romeo and Juliet: A BBC Radio 3 Full-cast Dramatisation. Starring Douglas Henshall & Cast (BBC Radio Shakespeare) The Jane Austen BBC Radio Drama Collection: Six BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisations Raymond Chandler: The BBC Radio Drama Collection: 8 BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisations The Secret Pilgrim (BBC Full Cast Radio Drama)(George Smiley series) (BBC Radio Series) The Honourable Schoolboy: A BBC Full-Cast Radio Drama (BBC Radio Series) A Small Town in Germany: A BBC Full-Cast Radio Drama (BBC Radio) Smiley's People: A BBC Full-Cast Radio Drama (BBC Radio Series) Charles Dickens: The BBC Radio Drama Collection: Volume One: Classic Drama From the BBC Radio Archive Othello: Lenny Henry in Shakespeare's Othello (BBC Radio Drama Full Cast Drama) After the Funeral: A BBC Full-Cast Radio Drama (BBC Audio Crime) The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (A Hercule Poirot Mystery)(BBC Radio Full Cast Drama) (BBC Audio Crime) 4:50 from Paddington: A BBC Full-Cast Radio Drama (BBC Audio Crime) The ABC Murders: A BBC Full-Cast Radio Drama (BBC Audio Crime) Murder On The Orient Express: A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection) Sherlock Holmes Essentials, Volume 1 (Six Full Cast BBC Radio Dramas) (BBC Radio Series) Bonecrack: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection) The Complete Miss Marple Radio Dramas (Twelve BBC Radio Dramas Starring June Whitfield) Jane Austen (Classic BBC Radio Full Cast Drama) Twelfth Night: A BBC Radio 3 Full-Cast Drama 