High window

A wealthy widow hires Los Angeles private detective Philip Marlowe to recover a rare gold coin that has disappeared from her family's collection - the legendary Brashear doubloon. The case becomes more complicated when it turns out that everyone who has touched the coin since its disappearance dies. Marlowe, an investigator with a special moral code, unravels a tangle of conspiracies, intrigues, and blackmail on the way to a terrible family secret... Raymond Chandler's unique style takes on new facets in "The High Window" - a brilliant detective story from the Philip Marlowe series.