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The High Window

Paperback

Main Details

Title The High Window
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Raymond Chandler
Introduction by Mark Billingham
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 181,Width 111
Category/GenreCrime and mystery
ISBN/Barcode 9780140108934
ClassificationsDewey:813.52
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date 30 March 1989
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Philip Marlowe's on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. That's the simple part. It becomes more complicated when Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead. That's also unlucky for a private investigator, because leaving a trail of corpses around LA gets cops' noses out of joint. If Marlowe doesn't wrap this one up fast, he's going to end up in jail or worse, in a box in the ground.

Author Biography

Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction.

Reviews

Kirkus Review US:Tight, bright tale which brings back Philip Marlowe, private detective, who is hired to find a missing coin. California the setting for a complex chain which leads back to a former suicide (murder), and develops three new killings, blackmail, and counterfeit. Hammett derivative, tough, tense, and fine fare. (Kirkus Reviews)