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The High Window
The High Window
Oct 18, 2024 10:22 PM

Author:Raymond Chandler,Scott Brick,Mark Billingham

The High Window

Brought to you by Penguin.

'He lay crumpled on his back. Very lonely, very dead.

The safe door was wide open. A metal drawer was pulled out. It was empty now. There may have been money in it once.'

Los Angeles PI 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. That's also unlucky for a private investigator, because leaving a trail of corpses around LA puts cops' noses seriously out of joint. If Marlowe doesn't wrap this one up fast, he's going to end up either in jail or in a wooden box in the ground . . .

The High Window is Raymond Chandler's third novel featuring laconic PI Philip Marlowe.

'Chandler's books should be read and judged, not as escapist literature, but as works of art' W.H. Auden

'Chandler grips the mind from the first sentence' Daily Telegraph

'One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain' Sunday Times

'Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes' Anthony Burgess

© Raymond Chandler 1989 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Reviews

Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious

—— Robert B. Parker , The New York Times Book Review

Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since

—— Paul Auster

Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude

—— Erle Stanley Gardner

[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision

—— Joyce Carol Oates , New York Review of Books

Raymond Chandler is a master

—— New York Times

Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye

—— Los Angeles Times

Anything Chandler writes about grips the mind from the first sentence

—— Daily Telegraph

Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . A great artist

—— The Boston Book Review

Dark, believable and brilliantly written

—— JENNY COLGAN

A thrilling page-turner, and a reminder to treasure our sunsets and sunrises while we still have them. I couldn’t put this book down!

—— Christina Dalcher, author of VOX

[A]n intriguing and unusual set-up […] enthralling sci-fi world building.

—— Sunday Times

In addition to masterfully painting a world on the brink of extinguishment […] Hunter Murray provides a top-notch plot that proves riveting until the very end.

—— Hot Press

An irresistible post-apocalyptic thriller.

—— Apple Books

A hugely atmospheric novelpowered by character rather than incident as Hopper is drawn deeper into a world she doesn’t understand… this has got a four part BBC Sunday night thriller written all over it.

—— Starburst Magazine

Deliciously sinister. I defy any reader to work out exactly what these two spectacularly unreliable narrators are up to

—— Reader's Digest

A blackly comic and original novel with a fascinatingly complex heroine in Rose Gold - you will be both horrified by and rooting for her

—— Heat

A stunning exploration of love, revenge, and the devastating impact of childhood trauma. It's dark, disturbing and utterly gripping

—— CrimeSquad

I absolutely devoured it! It's right up my street and I couldn't get enough of Patti and Rose Gold, alternating my opinion of them at the same speed that I was turning the pages! A fabulous read!

—— Sandie Jones, author of The Other Woman

Superb! And seriously twisted. This book will play with your mind...then STAY on your mind. Compelling and very, very clever

—— Teresa Driscoll, bestselling author of I Will Make You Pay.

Two extraordinary narrators drive the nail-biting action in this sensational, compulsively readable debut. A tour de force of captivating psychological suspense

—— Gilly Macmillan

An original, stunning debut! Masterful crafting of a split time-frame and utterly compelling characters will hook readers from the very first page until they finally learn the truth hiding within this chilling mother-daughter relationship. An intelligent, beguiling read that should be at the top of every reader's list

—— Wendy Walker

More than a page-turner-although it's undoubtably that - The Recovery of Rose Gold plumbs the depths of this poisoned mother-daughter relationship, asking probing questions about why we all hurt the ones we love. An explosive debut from a thrilling new voice

—— Kirsten Chen, author of Bury What We Cannot Take

A blackly comic and original novel with a fascinatingly complex heroine in Rose Gold - you will be both horrified by and rooting for her

—— Heat

Wrobel has crafted two gloriously complex characters who will swing the reader between horrified disbelief and empathy in the turn of a single page. Wrobel uses witty writing and clever plotting to ensure the reader will fly through the pages in search of the truth. It takes profound skill to craft such a twisty and darkly entertaining read, and Wrobel does it in her debut as deftly as only the best thriller writers can do

—— Amy Stuart, #1 bestselling author of Still Mine and Still Water

Intelligent. Highly disturbing

—— Literary Review

Very rarely does a book like The Recovery of Rose Gold come along . . . this is a book that wastes no time in enticing in a reader and keeping them guessing until the very last page

—— Culturefly

Sinister and chilling . . . The writing flows beautifully and I felt like each character was confiding in me, trusting me with their secrets. I loved every bit of this thrilling story and the ending was brilliant and perfect. It's an amazing debut looking at the tangled web of a controlling mother/daughter relationship and a must read in my opinion

—— NB Magazine

Taut, twisted and with two terrifically toxic narrators, this thriller offers a wonderfully wicked perspective on complicated mother-daughter relationships. Gripping

—— Psychologies

Striking. Unsettling yet compelling reading

—— Oxford Times

It will make you laugh on one page, exhibiting the darkest of humour, and then make you shudder at the very next

—— Chat Special

A gritty story of truth and fantasy

—— Sainsbury's Magazine

Must read

—— Hello

I haven't come across two more unbalanced characters in books than this mother and daughter

—— Prima

Horribly riveting. At times I wanted to, but I could not put it down

—— Saga Magazine

Wrobel's claustrophobic debut explores the sinister subject of parents who deliberately make their children ill . . . Find out who's manipulating who in this clever chiller

—— Sunday Express

Deliciously icy. Wrobel's cleverly constructed plot twists and turns, undermining any sense of integrity the minute you catch a glimpse of it

—— Irish News

In vivid detail, Hope Adams illuminates life in convict quarters on a stinking, storm-soaked ship, and delves into the lives of individual women and the small tragedies that have condemned them to be sent far away, with little hope of return

—— Jewish Chronicle

A well-paced page-turner illuminating a forgotten story that reminds us how far we have come

—— Jewish Chronicle

Pulls you into the heart of its story, while celebrating redemption, rehabilitation and the good in people. All set to the backdrop of a truly fascinating slice of history

—— Phase Eight Book Club

Historical events and characters are cleverly blended into a thought-provoking tale

—— Candis

Adams disguises a social-history lesson on women's rights as a gripping period drama

—— Cosmopolitan
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