The high window
About this book
Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the 1940s and 1950s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily. In The High Window, Marlowe starts out on the trail of a single stolen coin and ends up knee-deep in bodies. 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. But Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead. 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. Starring Toby Stephens, this thrilling dramatization by Robin Brooks retains all the wry humor of Chandler’s serpentine suspense novel.
Reader Profile
3.8/5 · 12 readers · 198 pages · ≈ 3 h 40 m · Demanding
How long does it take to read The high window?
About ≈ 3 h 40 m — 198 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is The high window?
198 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is The high window?
It sits on the Biography & Memoir, Fiction shelves.
Is The high window in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Where does The high window take place?
It is set in Los Angeles (Calif.), California, Los Angeles.
Who wrote The high window?
Raymond Chandler (1888–1959).