The High Window
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 First edition cover |
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| Author(s) | Raymond Chandler |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Philip Marlowe |
| Genre(s) | Detective, Crime, Novel |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Publication date | 1942 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 240 pp |
| ISBN | NA |
| Preceded by | Farewell, My Lovely |
| Followed by | The Lady in the Lake |
The High Window is a 1942 novel written by Raymond Chandler. It is his third novel to feature Los Angeles private detective Philip Marlowe.
[edit] Plot introduction
The story begins (in the pre-war summer of 1941) when Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find an old rare coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that belonged in her deceased husband's collection. Mrs. Murdock insists that her son's wife has stolen the coin. Marlowe begins investigating, and discovers a horrible truth; every owner of the Brasher Doubloon has been murdered. He also must play psychoanalyst, to solve the riddle of Mrs. Murdock's troubled assistant, and the assistant's relationship to both Mrs. Murdock and her son. This is necessary to put together the big picture; Marlowe is never satisfied with only solving one piece of the puzzle.
[edit] Film and radio adaptation
Two film adaptations of the novel have been made. The first was Time to Kill , directed by Herbert I. Leeds and released in 1942. The second adaptation was The Brasher Doubloon, directed by John Brahm and released in 1947.
The novel was adapted for radio by Bill Morrison, directed by John Tydeman and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 17 October 1977 starring Ed Bishop as Marlowe and again on 8 October 2011 starring Toby Stephens.
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