† The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler_Level 3 Penguin Readers.pdf

The Lady in the Lake is a murder story. Private

detective Philip Marlowe is looking for the wife of

Derace Kingsley. Is she dead or not? Is she the

lady in the lake?

Penguin Readers is a series of simplified stories which introduces

you step-by-step to the literature that has made Penguin Books

world famous. This series offers you classics, best-sellers, film-titles

and original stories. Each hook has extensive exercises, a detailed

introduction and clear information about the syllabus. They are

published at six levels from Beginner (300 words) to Advanced

(3000 words).

The Series Editor is Derek Strange, a leading authority on reading schemes.

6 Advanced (3000 words)

5 Upper Intermediate (2300 words)

4 Intermediate (1650 words)

3 Pre-lntermediate (1050 words)

2 Elementary (500 words)

1 Beginner (300 words)

The cover shows a detail from New York Office by Edward Hopper in the Collection of

the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery. Alabama, The Blount Collection

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The Lady in the Lake

About ten feet below the water I saw something yellow. Something

long and yellow. It moved slowly through the water. A woman's

hair.

Derace Kingsley's wife went away some weeks ago — and

didn't come back. Now Philip Marlowe, a Los Angeles

detective, must find her. Is she dead? Did a lover kill her? Is

she the lady in the lake? Or is she a killer?

Marlowe must find answers - and quickly. Because there is

a killer in Los Angeles, and the killer is working fast. . .

Raymond Chandler is perhaps the most famous of all

American detective writers. He was born in Chicago, Illinois,

in the north of the United States, in 1888. When he was nine,

his mother took him to England. He went to school there and

later worked on British newspapers. He went back to America

in 1912, then, from 1917, he fought in the First World War

(1914-18) with the Canadians.

In 1919, he went back to the United States and worked in

many different jobs before he started to write. This happened

when he lost a very important job in 1932, when he was

forty-four. He sold his first story, a detective story, in 1933.

His first book. The Big Sleep (1939), was about his famous

detective, Philip Marlowe, and Marlowe is in all the books

he wrote after that. Many people still think The Big Sleep,

Farewell, My Lovely, (1940), The Lady in the Lake (1944), The

Little Sister (1949) and The Long Goodbye (1953) are some of

the best of all American detective stories.

After his wife died, in 1954, Chandler was very unhappy

and drank a lot. He died in 1959.

To the teacher:

In addition to all the language forms of Level One, which are

used again at this level of the series, the main verb forms and

tenses used at Level Two are:

• common irregular forms of past simple verbs, going to (for

prediction and to state intention) and common phrasal verbs

• modal verbs: will and won't (to express willingness) and

must (to express obligation or necessity).

Also used are:

• adverbs: irregular adverbs of manner, further adverbs of

place and time

• prepositions: of movement, further prepositions and pre-

positional phrases of place and time

• adjectives: comparison of similars ( as ... as ) and of dissimilars

( -er than, the . . . -est in/of, more and most . . . )

• conjunctions: so (consequences), because (reasons), before/

after / when (for sequencing)

• indirect speech (statements).

Specific attention is paid to vocabulary development in the

Vocabulary Work exercises at the end of the book. These

exercises are aimed at training students to enlarge their vocabu-

lary systematically through intelligent reading and effective

use of a dictionary.

To the student:

Dictionary Words:

• some words in this book are darker black than others. Look

them up in your dictionary or try to understand them without

a dictionary first, and then look them up later.

The Lady in the Lake

RAYMOND CHANDLER

Level 2

Retold by Jennifer Bassett

Series Editor: Derek Strange

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