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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.
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The High Window, Raymond Chandler
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- Released
- 1943
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- Title
- The High Window
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Raymond Chandler
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Released
- 1943
- ISBN10
- 0140108939
- ISBN13
- 9780140108934
- Category
- World prose
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- 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.