Toby Stephens stars as Philip Marlowe in this BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatization of a classic Raymond Chandler mystery. This thrilling dramatization perfectly evokes the atmosphere of Chandlers fast-paced, absorbing novel. 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 amid the corruption he encounters daily. In The Lady in the Lake 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.
