{"product_id":"the-high-window-9780241956298","title":"The High Window","description":"By: Raymond Chandler   | Series: Phillip Marlowe \u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA CLASSIC NOVEL BY THE MASTER OF HARD-BOILED CRIME, \u003ci\u003eTHE HIGH WINDOW \u003c\/i\u003eIS RAYMOND CHANDLER'S THIRD STORY FEATURING LACONIC PI PHILIP MARLOWE.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e'He lay crumpled on his back. Very lonely, very dead. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe safe door was wide open. A metal drawer was pulled out. It was empty now. There may have been money in it once.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLos Angeles PI 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 puts cops' noses seriously out of joint. If Marlowe doesn't wrap this one up fast, he's going to end up either in jail or in a wooden box in the ground . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Chandler's books should be read and judged, not as escapist literature, but as works of art' W.H. Auden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Chandler grips the mind from the first sentence' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"GB - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44476180693219,"sku":"L0A-DTRPRUK-9780241956298","price":92.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/getimage_d18731a1-26df-4c68-9fa7-800f29a51679.jpg?v=1735560438","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/products\/the-high-window-9780241956298","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}