NMLP P-025318 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Lady in the Lake

Raymond Chandler · Alfred A. Knopf (New York) · 1943

US Knopf (1943) is the true first; the UK Hamish Hamilton edition followed in 1944. Fourth Philip Marlowe novel.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-025318 for "The Lady in the Lake" by Raymond Chandler (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-025318, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).