# The High Window

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- Book: [The High Window](https://www.bookquiver.com/raymond-chandler/the-high-window) ([The High Window.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/raymond-chandler/the-high-window.md))
- Authors: [Raymond Chandler](https://www.bookquiver.com/raymond-chandler)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4191-116-8
- Published: 2005-07-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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 ... With an introduction by Mark Billingham.