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. Traditional Detectives The High Window Audible Audiobook Unabridged Raymond Chandler (Author), Scott Brick (Narrator), & 1 more 1,448 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 10.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. In all three novels, Chandler's hard-edged prose, colourful characters, vivid vernacular, and, above all, his enigmatic loner of a hero, establish his enduring claim to the heights of his chosen genre.īuy The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window by Raymond Chandler from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, BooksDirect. In The High Window, Marlowe starts out on the trail of a single stolen coin and ends up knee-deep in bodies. Item 1811209 A fine first edition in a near fine dust jacket. In The High Window, Marlowe searches the California underworld for a priceless gold coin and finds himself deep in the tangled affairs of a dead coin collector.

In Farewell, My Lovely, Marlowe deals with the gambling circuit, a murder he stumbles upon, and three very beautiful but potentially deadly women. The Big Sleep, Chandler's first novel, introduces Philip Marlowe, a private detective inhabiting the seamy side of Los Angeles in the 1930s, as he takes on a case involving a paralysed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail and murder.

Description - The Big Sleep, Farewell, My Lovely, The High Window by Raymond Chandler Raymond Chandler's first three novels, published here in one volume, established his reputation as an unsurpassed master of hard-boiled detective fiction. The High Window's first edition cover In this novel by Raymond Chandler, Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy widow to track down a missing gold coin that she thinks her shiftless daughter-in-law has stolen from her late husband’s priceless collection.

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