Lady in the Lake

Philip Marlowe, a detective in Los Angeles, was involved in an embarrassing family affair.Mr. Kingsley, an executive of a perfume company who is handsome and mettlesome is cuckolded.His beautiful, heady and wealthy blonde wife sent a telegram, claiming to go to Mexico with her little white faced boyfriend to break the shackles and be tied in wedlock.However, a month passed, Mrs. Kingsley was never heard from again, and the stranger thing is that her true love boyfriend claimed that he had never seen Mrs. Kingsley.As the investigation going on, Marlowe discovered that another mysterious blonde woman was missing on the same day with Mrs. Kingsley.And when a swollen and horrible blonde hair female corpse was salvaged from the bottom of the resort lake that Mrs. Kingsley had stayed, the story was far beyond the scripts of an elopement.Who is the murderer?Who is the victim?What is the secret that the police officer who tries to obstruct Marlowe's investigation is covering up?