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Original Title:	The High Window
ISBN:	0394758269 (ISBN13: 9780394758268)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Philip Marlowe #3
Characters:	Elizabeth Bright Murdock, Leslie Murdock, Linda Conquest, George Anson Phillips, Philip Marlowe, Lou Vannier, Merle Davis, Alex Morny, Elisha Morningstar, Lois Magic, Eddie Prue, Detective Spangler, Detective-Lieutenant Jesse Breeze, Kenny Haste, Hench, Pietro Palermo, Mr. Grandy
Setting:	Los Angeles, California,1941(United States) California(United States) Pasadena, California(United States)

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A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortune—the elements don't quite add up until Marlowe discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and the worst kind of human exploitation.

"Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude."-- Erle Stanley Gardner

"Raymond Chandler has given us a detective who is hard-boiled enough to be convincing . . . and that is no mean achievement." -- The New York Times

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Title	:	The High Window (Philip Marlowe #3)
Author	:	Raymond Chandler
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 265 pages
Published	:	August 12th 1992 by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard (first published August 17th 1942)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Noir. Detective. Classics. Hard Boiled

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In Chandlers third installment in the Marlowe series, The High Window, we see our cynical detective given a job by a cranky and boozy widow, Mrs. Murdock, to search for a rare coin that was allegedly swiped by her daughter-in-law. As is the case with many other Marlowe novels, the initial request to find someone or something is only the appetizer to the full scale mystery that eventually reveals itself before the readers eyes. Inevitably, Phillip Marlowe, as is the case with many of the other in

In this worthy companion to The Big Sleep and Farewell My Lovely. Marlowe tracks a rare colonial coin called "The Brasher Doubloon," finds a corpse, clears an innocent suspect, and--ever the knight in tarnished armor--rescues a damsel in distress. This novel features a handful of well-drawn stock characters: an iron dowager and her entourage (consisting of an effete son and a mousy secretary), a B-movie actor turned big-time gambler who is protected by a six-foot-five henchman (both with scars),

Like all of Raymond Chandlers novels, The High Window features private detective Philip Marlowe as first-person narrator reporting events unfolding as he attempts to crack a case in sun-soaked Los Angeles. I marvel at his perceptiveness and cleverness. Can anybody surpass Marlowe in his ability to see all the angles, to size people up, to catch all the clues, to ask the right questions, to crack wise at those times cracking wise is the wisest, to put the puzzle together so all the pieces fit in

Whenever I review one of Raymond Chandlers Philip Marlowe novels I feel like I should be doing it with a half-bottle of rye on the desk next to the cigarette burning in an ashtray with my fedora pushed back on my head. But I quit smoking years ago, and I dont bounce back from hangovers quite the way I used to so I try not to chug whiskey from the bottle these days unless its a dire emergency. Maybe I can still get the hat.Marlowe gets hired by a ball-busting old bag who thinks that that the

Chandler firing on all cylinders! Excellent plot and pacing from beginning to end, with some wonderful shady characters, a high body count and superb prose throughout. Although thoroughly hardboiled, Marlowe has always had a pretty strong moral compass. Here we see him take it up a notch, playing the knight in shining armor and rescuing a damsel in distress.

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2.5 stars onlyThe first half was slow and very uneven, but the second half picked up the pace with a nice rhythm .... until the pages of info-dump of "what really happened' by Marlowe. This could have been peppered throughout the book for far more enjoyable reading. My least favourite Marlowe so far, even worse than Farewell, My Lovely As usual with my reviews, please first read the publishers blurb/summary of the book. Thank you. Brasher DubloonsMarlowe chases Mrs Murdock's Brasher Dubloon and