The High Window

Informationen zum Autor Raymond Thornton Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, but moved to England with his family when he was twelve, where he attended Dulwich College, alma mater to some of the twentieth century's most renowned writers. Returning to America in 1912, he settled in California, worked in a number of jobs, and later married. It was during the Depression era that he seriously turned his hand to writing, and his first published story appeared in the pulp magazine Black Mask in 1933, followed six years later, when he was fifty, by his first novel, The Big Sleep . Chandler died in 1959, having established himself as the finest crime writer in America. Klappentext Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely regarded as one of the very greatest writers of detective fiction. Zusammenfassung Philip Marlowe's on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a 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.

Report

Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious Robert B. Parker The New York Times Book Review

Product details

• Authors: Mark Billingham, Raymond Chandler, Chandler Raymond
• Assisted by: Mark Billingham (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.07.2011
• EAN: 9780241956298
• ISBN: 978-0-241-95629-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 200 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Philip Marlowe; Philip Marlowe; Phillip Marlowe
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; Los Angeles, FICTION / Classics, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Classic crime and mystery fiction, c 1940 to c 1949