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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.
Profil du lecteur
3.8/5 · 12 lecteurs · 198 pages · ≈ 3 h 40 m · Très exigeant
Combien de temps pour lire The high window ?
Environ ≈ 3 h 40 m — 198 pages, à raison d'environ 250 mots par page et 225 mots par minute.
Combien de pages fait The high window ?
198 pages dans son édition la plus lue.
Quel est le genre de The high window ?
Il se trouve dans les rayons Biography & Memoir, Fiction.
The high window est-il dans le domaine public ?
Non — il est encore sous droits d'auteur.
Où se déroule The high window ?
L'histoire se déroule à Los Angeles (Calif.), California, Los Angeles.
Qui a écrit The high window ?
Raymond Chandler (1888–1959).