# 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: bbc_digital_audio
- Medium: audio
- Length: 1 h 26 min
- Narrated by: Toby Stephens
- ISBN: 978-14-0844-053-7
- Published: 2011-10-20
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 1 h 26 min

## Description

Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the ’40s and ’50s 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 dramatisation by Robin Brooks retains all the wry humour of Chandler’s serpentine suspense novel.