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The Lady in the Lake

Chandler, Raymond
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mystery hardboiled detective fiction past tense first POV ~298 pp
features extracted 2026-04-12

Vibe

noir gritty moody

A mystery. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose. Plot-driven. Contains notable violence.

Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 60
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 30
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 85
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 60
externalintrospective
Ending 40
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 70
intimateepic

Content

Violence 85%
noneextreme
Sexual content 40%
noneexplicit
Humor 30%
seriouscomedic
Romance 50%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count74,398
Page count~298 pp
Prologue—
Epilogue—
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst

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