num_pages: 265
description: Toby Stephens stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Raymond Chandler’s third Philip Marlowe mystery.Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of a moral man in an amoral world. California in the ’40s and ’50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily.In The High Window , Marlowe starts out on the trail of a single stolen coin and ends up knee-deep in bodies. 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.But Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad they always end up dead. 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.Starring Toby Stephens, this thrilling dramatisation by Robin Brooks retains all the wry humour of Chandler’s serpentine suspense novel. It was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 8 October 2011.
language: English
title: The High Window
titlecomplete: The High Window
characters: Philip Marlowe, Lou Vannier, Elizabeth Bright Murdock, Mr. Grandy, Eddie Prue, Alex Morny, George Anson Phillips, Hench, Merle Davis, Elisha Morningstar, Detective-Lieutenant Jesse Breeze, Detective Spangler, Pietro Palermo, Kenny Haste, Leslie Murdock, Linda Conquest, Lois Magic
genres: American, Detective, Novels, Crime, Hard Boiled, Noir, Classics, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Fiction
ratings_count: 22508
places: Los Angeles, California, Pasadena, California, California
series: Philip Marlowe
publisher: Black Lizard Books