FREE THE HIGH WINDOW: CLASSIC HARD-BOILED DETECTIVE FICTION PDF Raymond Chandler,Mark Billingham | 288 pages | 25 Oct 2011 | Penguin Books Ltd | 9780241956298 | English | London, United Kingdom The High Window: A Novel - Raymond Chandler - Google книги Tight, bright tale which brings back Philip Marlowe, private The High Window: Classic Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction, who is hired to find a missing coin. California the setting for a complex chain which leads back to a former suicide murder Chandler is not only the best writer of hardboiled PI stories, he's one of the 20th century's top scribes, period. His full canon of novels and short stories is reprinted in trade paper featuring uniform covers in Black Lizard's signature style. A handsome set for a reasonable price. The High Window : A Novel. Raymond Chandler. 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. Although he was born in Chicago, Chandler spent The High Window: Classic Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction of his boyhood and The High Window: Classic Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction in England where he attended Dulwich College and later worked as a freelance journalist for The Westminster Gazette and The Spectator. In 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 inat the age of forty-five, he turned to writing fiction, publishing his first stories in Black Mask. Never a prolific writer, Chandler published only one collection of stories and seven novels in his lifetime. 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, Raymond Chandler - Wikipedia Philip Marlowe's on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover The High Window: Classic Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. That's the simple part. It becomes more complicated when Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead. That's also unlucky for a private investigator, because leaving a trail of corpses around LA gets cops' noses out of joint. If Marlowe doesn't wrap this one up fast, he's going to end up in jail - or worse, in a box in the ground. Raymond Chandler. Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in but moved The High Window: Classic Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction England with his mother when he was twelve after his parents' divorce. He published a number of poems and essays in local papers and worked as a reporter, essayist and book reviewer before emigrating to the United States in After serving for the Canadian Army during the First World War he tried a variety of jobs before becoming a bookkeeper and auditor for Dabney Oil Syndicate. In he married Cissy Pascal. When Chandler lost his job during the Great Depression, he decided to devote himself to writing. He began writing short stories for Black Mask Magazinethe best known of the 'hard-boiled' school of pulp fiction The High Window: Classic Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction. In he published his first novel The Big Sleep to instant acclaim in Britain and the US, introducing the world to his iconic private eye, Philip Marlowe. Marlowe went on to star in almost all of Raymond Chandler's major works and with Farewell My Lovely and The Long Goodbye Chandler cemented his reputation as a giant of American popular culture and master of a style of detective fiction that would be widely admired and imitated. Chandler turned to screenwriting in with Double Indemnity and worked closely with director Billy Wilder. He continued to write for Hollywood for the next four years, during the heyday of the Hollywood studio system, receiving an Oscar nomination for The Blue Dahlia In Chandler received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for screenplay and in for novel writing. During the last year of his life he was made President of the Mystery Writers of America. He died from pneumonia in Search books and authors. The High Window: Classic Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction from…. View all online retailers Find local retailers. The High Window is a classic novel by the master of hard-boiled crime. The High Window: Classic Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction the author Raymond Chandler Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in but moved to England with his mother when he was twelve after his parents' divorce. Also by Raymond Chandler. Praise for The High Window. Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence Daily Telegraph One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain Sunday Times Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes Anthony Burgess. Related titles. The Coast-to-Coast Murders. The Kingdom. The Thursday Murder Club. Private Moscow. James PattersonAdam Hamdy. We Are All the Same in the Dark. The Titanic Secret. Clive CusslerJack Du Brul. Past Tense. Wrath of Poseidon. Clive CusslerRobin Burcell. Moonflower Murders. I Am Pilgrim. Eight Detectives. Lost Souls. Philip PullmanChristopher Wormell. Tom Clancy's Firing Point. Either Side of Midnight. One by One. Journey of the Pharaohs. 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A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean The High Window: Classic Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction, 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. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. More Details Original Title. Philip Marlowe 3. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The High Windowplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The High Window. Nov 28, Glenn Russell rated it it was amazing. I marvel at his perceptiveness and cleverness. Can anybody surpass Marlowe in his ability to see all the angles, to size people up, to catch all the clues, to ask the right questions, to crack wise at those times cracking wise is the wisest, to put the puzzle together so all the pieces fit in place? Maybe Sam Spade or other top dog dicks The High Window: Classic Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction that's about The High Window: Classic Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction. Oh, clever Odysseus, who fooled the Cyclopes, who heard the song of the Sirens and lived to tell the tale, Raymond Chandler gave you a rebirth as a private eye. For anybody unfamiliar The High Window: Classic Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction Chandler, here is a snatch of dialogue taking place in Marlowe's office when a member of a very rich family comes to speak with the detective: He looked me over without haste and without much pleasure. He blew some smoke delicately and spoke through it with a The High Window: Classic Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction sneer. He sat down. He leaned back in his chair with the smile of a bored aristocrat. Here is another bit of dialogue where Marlowe watches from behind a curtain as a shady nightclub manager speaks to his wife after they find his wife's boyfriend shot in the head: Silence. Then the sound of a blow. The woman wailed. She was hurt, terribly hurt. Hurt in the depths of her soul. She made it rather good. I've been in pictures. I'm a connoisseur of ham. Skip it. You're going to tell me how this was done if I have to drag you around the room by your hair. Now - did you wipe off the gun? Two cases in point: when the name Heathcliff is mentioned, he knows the character is from Wuthering Heights and when someone shows him entries in a diary, he alludes to the Diary of Samuel Pepys. This contrast between the crime and social grime of s Los Angeles and the presence of Philip Marlow gives Chandler's work real The High Window: Classic Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction depth. There are The High Window: Classic Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction of authors, some very good, who have written detective fiction or crime fiction but what sets Raymond Chandler apart is the polished literary language matching any American author, including the likes of F.