The High Window
- 作者:Chandler,Ray (NRT),Raymond/ Porter
- 出版社:Baker & Taylor Books
- 出版日期:2015-08-11
- 語言:英文
- ISBN10:1501200666
- ISBN13:9781501200663
- 裝訂:有聲CD / 14 x 17.8 x 1.3 cm / 普通級
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 gets cops’ noses out of joint.
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.…