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Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1942. 240 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (spine ends lightly chipped and worn). Bound in brown cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. 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. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages.

The High Window is a novel written by Raymond Chandler, featuring his iconic detective character, Philip Marlowe. The story revolves around a missing coin and the various characters involved in its disappearance.