The High Window

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The High Window is a classic novel by the master of hard-boiled crime 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 ' Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph ' One of the greatest crime writers who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times' Chandler is an original stylist creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess Best-known as the creator of the original private eye Philip Marlowe Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 & died in 1959 Many of his books have been adapted for the screen & he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction His books include The Big Sleep The Little Sister Farewell My Lovely The Long Good-bye The Lady in the Lake Playback Killer in the Rain The High Window & Trouble is My Business