The high window
by Raymond Chandler
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Private investigators, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction in English, Fiction, Philip Marlowe (Fictitious character), Large type books, Mystery & Detective, Hard-Boiled, LITERARY CRITICISM, American, General, Biography, juvenile literature, Biography, California, fiction, Los angeles (calif.), fiction, Marlowe, philip (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled, Private investigators, fictionPlaces
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The high window
1992, Vintage Books
in English
- 1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed.
0394758269 9780394758268
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Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the 1940s and 1950s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily. In The High Window, Marlowe starts out on the trail of a single stolen coin and ends up knee-deep in bodies. 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. But Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead. 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. Starring Toby Stephens, this thrilling dramatization by Robin Brooks retains all the wry humor of Chandler’s serpentine suspense novel.
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