The High Window (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Raymond Chandler
- First Published: 1942
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: United States or Americans, California, Los Angeles, Upper classes, Detectives, Widows or widowers, Private investigators, Coins
- Locales: Pasadena, CA
Chandler's third book, The High Window, tells a story of personal tyranny and the misuse of money and power. The novel begins in front of an old, redbrick home in Pasadena, California. It is summer and much warmer there, in the San Gabriel Valley, than it is over the hill in Hollywood, where Philip Marlowe lives.
Marlowe is in Pasadena at the request of the wealthy widow Elizabeth Bright Murdock, a drunken, domineering matron. She wants Marlowe to find a valuable coin, the Brasher Doubloon, that has disappeared from her safe. She asserts that her flamboyant...
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