The High Window

Raymond Chandler

ISBN 10: 0241985013 / ISBN 13: 9780241985014

Published by Penguin Books

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[Author], [Publisher]. Author: Raymond ChandlerFormat: Paperback Number of Pages: 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.'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 . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The High Window
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241985013
• ISBN 13: 9780241985014
• Binding: Paperback
• Book Type: Paperback

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Synopsis

PI Philip Marlowe is tasked with tracking down a rare gold coin, allegedly stolen by the owner’s daughter-in-law, but his work is complicated by the fact that anyone who handles it is killed – drawing the attention of the police and adding pressure to solve the case.