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: Linda Conquest, Detective Spangler, Kenny Haste, Mr. Grandy, Elizabeth Bright Murdock, Elisha Morningstar, Philip Marlowe, Lois Magic, Detective-Lieutenant Jesse Breeze, George Anson Phillips, Merle Davis, Pietro Palermo, Leslie Murdock, Lou Vannier, Eddie Prue, Alex Morny, Hench
genres: Fiction, American, Mystery, Noir, Detective, Mystery Thriller, Classics, Novels, Hard Boiled, Crime
ratings_count: 22516
places: California, Pasadena, California, Los Angeles, California
series: Philip Marlowe
publisher: Vintage Books USA