The High Window
$22.48
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
19 March 2018
Summary
The classic Chandler mystery, reissued now in B format
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 g…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241956298 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241956293 |
| Author: | Raymond Chandler, Mark Billingham |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 19 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 203g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 131mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Phillip Marlowe |
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Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious
Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious – Robert B. Parker * The New York Times Book Review *Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since – Paul AusterRaymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude – Erle Stanley Gardner[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 – Joyce Carol Oates * New York Review of Books *Raymond Chandler is a master * New York Times *Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye * Los Angeles Times *Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence * Daily Telegraph *Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner… A great artist * The Boston Book Review *
About The Author
Raymond Chandler
Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction.
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