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Author's name: Raymond Chandler

Chandler is the one who made the crime novel a high literary art form.
— The New Yorker
When Philip Marlow is tasked with recovering a single rare gold coin from the collection of a wealthy widow in Pasadena, the job seems simple. But Marlow knows that simple things in 1940s California were rarely so simple.
He soon discovers that this stolen coin carries a deadly curse: anyone who touches it ends up dead. The search for the tiny piece of metal leads him into a tangled web of clues: a cold-blooded murder, a missing daughter-in-law with dangerous secrets, and a network of blackmail and human exploitation lurking beneath the glittering surface of the wealthy's lives.
Marlow, a man of principle in a world devoid of principles, finds himself not only in a race against a murderer, but also confronting the deepest forms of social corruption. "High Window" is not merely a criminal mystery; it is a journey into the dark heart of the upper class, where the greatest crime is the one committed silently.
"Raymond Chandler has given us a detective tough enough to be convincing... and that is no small feat."
— The New York Times