The High Window

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The renowned novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler, with the "quintessential urban private eye" ( Los Angeles Times ), Philip Marlowe • Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe , starring Liam Neeson. 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