The High Window

Beschreibung

A CLASSIC NOVEL BY THE MASTER OF HARD-BOILED CRIME, THE HIGH WINDOW IS RAYMOND CHANDLER'S THIRD STORY FEATURING LACONIC PI PHILIP MARLOWE.<BR><BR>'He lay crumpled on his back. Very lonely, very dead. The safe door was wide open. A metal drawer was pulled out. It was empty now. There may have been money in it once.'<BR><BR>Los Angeles PI 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 puts cops' noses seriously out of joint. If Marlowe doesn't wrap this one up fast, he's going to end up either in jail or in a wooden box in the ground . . .<BR><BR>'Chandler's books should be read and judged, not as escapist literature, but as works of art' W.H.

Auden<BR><BR>'Chandler grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph<BR><BR>'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times<BR><BR>'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess

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