The Lady in the Lake (BBC Radio Full Cast Drama starring Ed Bishop)

Ed Bishop stars as Philip Marlowe in these powerfully atmospheric BBC Radio 4 dramatizations of Raymond Chandlers novels about the cynical, world-weary, wise-cracking shamus whose honesty in a dishonest world sent him down the mean streets again and again in search of some kind of justice. Blonde, beautiful, and wild, Crystal Kingsley had never exactly been the faithful little wife. But when shes missing for a month and a womans body surfaces in an isolated mountain lake, murder-a-day Marlowe is back in business.When the body in the lake turns out not to be Crystal at all, it is in fact one of her neighbors, Philip Marlowe can sniff the beginnings of a mystery. Hired by Derace Kingsley to find his missing wife, Marlowe soon discovers that a few more corpses will turn up before he gets to the bottom of this particular case.