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Title
The high window

Author
Raymond Chandler

format
Paperback / softback

Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Language
English

UK Publication Date
19880712

Description

Crime fiction master Raymond Chandler's third novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times).

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

Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888 - 1959) was the master practitioner of American hard-boiled crime fiction. Although he was born in Chicago, Chandler spent most of his boyhood and youth in England where he attended Dulwich College and later worked as a freelance journalist for The Westminster Gazette and The Spectator. During World War I, Chandler served in France with the First Division of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, transferring later to the Royal Flying Corps (R. A. F.). In 1919 he returned to the United States, settling in California, where he eventually became director of a number of independent oil companies. The Depression put an end to his career, and in 1933, at the age of forty-five, he turned to writing fiction, publishing his first stories in Black Mask. Chandler's detective stories often starred the brash but honorable Philip Marlowe (introduced in 1939 in his first novel, The Big Sleep) and were noted for their literate presentation and dead-on critical eye. Never a prolific writer, Chandler published only one collection of stories and seven novels in his lifetime. Some of Chandler's novels, like The Big Sleep, were made into classic movies which helped define the film noir style. In the last year of his life he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. He died in La Jolla, California on March 26, 1959.

Type
BOOK

Edition
1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard Edition

Keyword Index
Private investigators - California - Los Angeles - Fiction.|Los Angeles (Calif.) - Fiction.

Country of Publication
New York (State)

Number of Pages
265

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