The High Window

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 gets cops' noses out of joint.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 ...

'Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence.' -- The Daily Telegraph
'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain.' -- The Sunday Times
'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes.' -- Anthony Burgess

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. Ray Porter has garnered two Audie Award nominations and a multitude of enthusiastic reviews for his sparkling narration of audiobooks. In addition, he has appeared in numerous films and television shows, including Frasier, ER, Will & Grace, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and Almost Famous.A fifteen-year veteran of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, he lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.

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