Author: CHANDLER, RAYMOND (1888-1959)
Title: The high window / Raymond Chandler
Description: London : Penguin : in association with Hamish Hamilton 1951. First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong.Physical description; 221 p. ; 20 cm. Series; Penguin Books. no. 851. Notes; First published by Hamish Hamilton. 1943; published in Penguin Books. 1951. 1967 reprint. Summary; 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. Review: 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) Subjects; Marlowe. Philip (Fictitious character) — Fiction. Private investigators — California — Los Angeles — Fiction. American fiction — Quaker authors. Fiction in English. English fiction. Fiction in English. 1900 — Texts. Crime & mystery. FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled. FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Historical. Murder Fiction. Genre; Detective and mystery stories. Fiction. Mystery fiction.Weight in Kg appr.:

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