![]() ![]() The chief and some officers arrived, along with an undertaker and a lab man, who took a blood sample. The doc tells him to call the chief of police at home. He didn’t call the police, but rather, calls the doc. A year-and-a-half earlier, at about 2am, Matson happened by the Austrian home and found the body of Florence, the doctor’s wife, on the floor of the garage, in “peekaboo pajamas and slippers.” The car motor was running. In “Bay City Blues,” Violets McGee, Dalmas’ sheriff’s deputy pal, puts him in touch with Harry Matson, a neighborhood watchman in Bay City (Santa Monica), who thinks someone is trying to bump him off. The author drew on material two previously published short stories featuring Marlowe prototype John Dalmas: “Bay City Blues” and “The Lady in the Lake,” which appeared in Dime Detective magazine in June 1938 and January 1939 respectively (and, by extension, “No Crime in the Mountains” from Detective Story magazine, September 1941, with detective John Evans, which expanded and refined the mountain resort setting of “The Lady in the Lake”). Published in November 1943, The Lady in the Lake was Chandler’s fourth Philip Marlowe novel. If you read on, note spoilers follow- about the novel, the short stories Chandler cannibalized for it, and the film adaptation. The film Lady in the Lake was based of on Raymond Chandler’s novel The Lady in the Lake. ![]()
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