Raymond Chandler
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| Title | : | The High Window (Philip Marlowe #3) |
| Author | : | Raymond Chandler |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 265 pages |
| Published | : | August 12th 1992 by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard (first published August 17th 1942) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Noir. Detective. Classics. Hard Boiled |
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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."-- Erle Stanley Gardner
"Raymond Chandler has given us a detective who is hard-boiled enough to be convincing . . . and that is no mean achievement." -- The New York Times
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| Original Title: | The High Window |
| ISBN: | 0394758269 (ISBN13: 9780394758268) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Philip Marlowe #3 |
| Characters: | Elizabeth Bright Murdock, Leslie Murdock, Linda Conquest, George Anson Phillips, Philip Marlowe, Lou Vannier, Merle Davis, Alex Morny, Elisha Morningstar, Lois Magic, Eddie Prue, Detective Spangler, Detective-Lieutenant Jesse Breeze, Kenny Haste, Hench, Pietro Palermo, Mr. Grandy |
| Setting: | Los Angeles, California,1941(United States) California(United States) Pasadena, California(United States) |
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Ratings: 4.07 From 15528 Users | 760 ReviewsCrit Regarding Books The High Window (Philip Marlowe #3)
Now our friend Philip Marlowe, a private dick in Los Angeles during the 1940's , is a nice guy...most of the time, he wouldn't murder anyone who didn't need it, maybe not real accurate, but in this novel he does let two killers escape justice...the victims were worst than the perpetrators. An opinion I'm sure the readers will concur... In Pasadena, a small, quiet, wealthy city outside L.A. lives in one of those mansions that some people envy, other hate a certain Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock,Chandler's a real pro. This feels like it tripped off the pen, like his kick from writing it is no less than ours from reading it. His great sense of timing isn't going to work out of context, so you are going to have to take my word for it.Still...just this, in the middle of describing a character's face.He had a long nose that would be into things.I've read this sentence a hundred times now. Savoured it. Fantastic. The guy is sharp as when it comes to building pictures of people, of settings,
An enjoyable, if almost impossibly convoluted story about a stolen gold coin. Chandler has left behind the "nigger" slurs of Farewell, My Lovely - unless you count Marlowe's friendship with a "Negro" lawn jockey in Pasadena whom he pats on the head numerous times - and has moved on to Jews. There's "an old Jew" who owns a pawnshop and tries to bargain Marlowe down unseemlily; a "fat greasy sensual Jew with the tall stately bored showgirl;" Dr. Carl Moss - "a big burly Jew with a Hitler mustache,
She saw the cut glass decanter, took the stopper out, poured herself a drink and tossed it down with a quick flip of the wrist.Youre a man named Marlowe? she asked, looking at me. She put her hips against the end of the desk and crossed her ankles.I said I was a man named Marlowe.By and large, she said, I am quite sure I am not going to like you one damn little bit. So speak your piece and drift away. Its a hard-boiled world out there, and a man named Marlowe must go down into its sewers in his
I once almost got in to a fist fight with an acquaintance for suggesting that Dashiell Hammett was a better writer than Raymond Chandler. I was trying to rile him and was (kind of) joking. I've always preferred Hammett's style - more forthright, and yet intricate and layered. I will never forget the feeling of utter shock and breathlessness on reading Red Harvest in a single sitting; THIS was written in 1929??? Tarantino has nothing on this dude! Rereading The High Window my mind isn't changed
Another hard-boiled detective novel starring the quintessential noir detective, Philip Marlowe. Our protagonist takes on a seemingly simple case involving a stolen gold doubloon but, this being a Chandler novel, the bodies soon start hitting the floor and Marlowe soon realises there's more to it than just a missing coin.Marlowe seems to dial the misogyny down a notch in this one and becomes quite a sweet father figure to a 'damsel in distress' with some physical and mental health issues. Said
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