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  • The High Window

  • Phillip Marlowe, Book 3
  • Written by: Raymond Chandler
  • Narrated by: Scott Brick
  • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Written by: Raymond Chandler
Narrated by: Scott Brick
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'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. 
©1942 Raymond Chandler (P)2020 Penguin Audio
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The trouble with Audiobooks is that it largely depends on the narrator how you would perceive the characters and the story as a whole. When I first read Chandler in The Big Sleep, Marlowe came out to be a wisecracking detective who never loses his cool and delivers dialogues in a calm drooping self assured voice. At least that’s how I’d hear when he spoke in my head. And it was way cooler than Brick’s intense, sometimes shouting delivery. Marlowe is one of the coolest character I’ve ever read and it is important to do justice to him and show him how Chandler intended him to be. Narrater gets to a point when he’s shouting and it grows as the scene progresses. And then a shouting dialogue would end with “She said in her stoney voice”. And you would find yourself thinking, No sir that’s not how a stoney voice should sound like.
I recommend reading Chandler and experience Marlowe yourself.

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