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 detective: 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 luck: 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: New Millennium Audio