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Summary. Chandler’s third book, The High Window, tells a story of personal tyranny and the misuse of money and power. The novel begins in front of an old, redbrick home in Pasadena, California ...
The High Window. Book descriptions. A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small fortune--the elements don't quite add up until Marlowe discovers evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and the worst kind of human exploitation.@@"Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude."--.
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 paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder. In Farewell, My Lovely , Marlowe deals with the gambling circuit, a murder he stumbles ...
Chandler died in 1959, having established himself as the finest crime writer in America. A CLASSIC NOVEL BY THE MASTER OF HARD-BOILED CRIME, THE HIGH WINDOW IS RAYMOND CHANDLER'S THIRD STORY FEATURING LACONIC PI PHILIP MARLOWE. 'He lay crumpled on his back. Very lonely, very dead.
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Philip Marlowe is not only incredibly observant and perceptive to the point of being super-sharp, but he is also a highly intelligent, well-educated, highly moral man. From The High Window, two cases in point: when the name Heathcliff is mentioned, he knows the character is from Wuthering Heights; when someone shows him entries in a diary, he alludes to the diary of Samuel Pepys.
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