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The High Window
Phillip Marlowe (Related to this series)
- Author
- Raymond Chandler
- Narrator
- Scott Brick
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 18 February 2021
- Run Time
- 7 hours 27 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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'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 . . .
The High Window is Raymond Chandler's third novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe.
'Chandler's books should be read and judged, not as escapist literature, but as works of art' W.H. Auden
'Chandler 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
© Raymond Chandler 1989 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Critics Review
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Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious
The New York Times Book Review
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Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since
Paul Auster
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Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude
Erle Stanley Gardner
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[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision
New York Review of Books
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Raymond Chandler is a master
New York Times
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Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye
Los Angeles Times
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Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence
Daily Telegraph
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Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . A great artist
The Boston Book Review
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Details
- Author
- Raymond Chandler
- Narrator
- Scott Brick
- Duration
- 7 hours 27 minutes
- Release Date
- 18 February 2021
- ISBN
- 9780241989371
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.'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 . . .The High Window is Raymond Chandler's third novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe.'Chandler's books should be read and judged, not as escapist literature, but as works of art' W.H. Auden'Chandler 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© Raymond Chandler 1989 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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