Hired by a wealthy widow to find a stolen gold doubloon, Philip Marlowe knows right off the bat that everyone involved in the case is lying about something. Why does the widow suspect her son's estranged wife? And what really happened to her first husband? Murder, blackmail, gambling, and infidelity are just some of the elements of this high-stakes case, and Marlowe will have to use all his wits to find both the coin and the killer.

Raymond Chandler's cynical private eye returns in The High Window, the third novel to feature his best-known character. Set in 1940s Los Angeles, the author drew on inspiration from real-life murders and other events of the time to shed light on the corruption that reached even the highest offices of the city.

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