{"product_id":"high-window","title":"High Window","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA CLASSIC NOVEL BY THE MASTER OF HARD-BOILED CRIME, \u003ci\u003eTHE HIGH WINDOW \u003c\/i\u003eIS RAYMOND CHANDLER''S THIRD STORY FEATURING LACONIC PI PHILIP MARLOWE.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e''He lay crumpled on his back. Very lonely, very dead. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe safe door was wide open. A metal drawer was pulled out. It was empty now. There may have been money in it once.''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLos 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 . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Chandler''s books should be read and judged, not as escapist literature, but as works of art'' W.H. Auden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Chandler grips the mind from the first sentence'' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''One of the greatest crime writers, who set standards others still try to attain'' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Chandler is an original stylist, creator of a character as immortal as Sherlock Holmes'' Anthony Burgess\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57303076405630,"sku":"NW9780241956298","price":9.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780241956298.jpg?v=1778647402","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/high-window","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}