The High Window (Phillip Marlowe) by Chandler Raymond

The High Window (Phillip Marlowe) by Chandler Raymond

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The High Window (Phillip Marlowe) by Chandler Raymond

Toby Stephens stars in this BC Radio 4 full-cast dramatization 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 amid 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 dramatization by Robin Brooks retains all the wry humor of Chandler s serpentine suspense novel.

Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888-1959) es el gran maestro de la novela negra americana. Nacio en Chicago, pero paso la mayor parte de su infancia y juventud en Inglaterra, donde estudio en el Dulwich College y acabo trabajando como periodista freelance en The Westminster Gazette y The Spectator. Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, se alisto en la Primera Division Canadiense, que servia en Francia, y mas adelante entro a formar parte de la Royal Air Force (RAF). En 1919 regreso a Estados Unidos y se instalo en California, donde ejercio como directivo de varias companias petroleras independientes. Sin embargo, la Gran Depresion termino con su carrera en dicho sector en 1933.

Chandler tenia cuarenta y cinco anos cuando empezo a escribir relatos detectivescos para revistas baratas de genero negro, mas conocidas como pulps: Black Mask y Dime Detective. Sus novelas destacan por el realismo duro y la mirada social critica. En El sueno eterno (1939), su primera novela, presento en sociedad al impetuoso pero noble Philip Marlowe. Pronto la siguieron Adios, muneca (1940), La ventana alta (1942), La dama del lago (1943), La hermana menor (1949), El largo adios (1953) y Playback (1958).

Mantuvo una relacion estrecha y turbulenta con Hollywood, que llevo sus novelas a la gran pantalla y para cuya industria cinematografica trabajo de guionista entre 1943 y 1950. En 1958 fue elegido presidente de la organizacion Mystery Writers of America. Murio en La Jolla, California, el 26 de marzo de 1959.

SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9780241980651
ISBN 10 0241980658
Title The High Window (Phillip Marlowe)
Author Chandler Raymond
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin
Year published 2016-09-12
Number of pages 288
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.