The High Window Summary
Raymond Chandler

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"A High Window" is a murder mystery by Raymond Chandler featuring the wise-talking and tough private detective Philip Marlowe. Recounted from the point of view of Marlowe, the novel opens as he is called to the lavish Pasadena home of Mrs. Elizabeth Bright Murdock, an imposing older woman who wants to hire him to retrieve a valuable coin that has been stolen from her deceased second husband's collection. She suspects her...

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Raymond Chandler Biographies (2)

Raymond Chandler

5,994 words, approx. 20 pages

In the late 1940s well-known British author and critic Evelyn Waugh hailed Raymond Chandler as America's "greatest living writer." Poet W. H. Auden stated that Chandler's mystery novels "should be rea... Read more

Raymond (Thornton) Chandler

14,485 words, approx. 49 pages

Upon the publication of his first novel, The Big Sleep (1939), Raymond Chandler was hailed as one of the leading practitioners of the American hard-boiled detective novel, but he received virtually no... Read more

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