{"id":1642,"date":"2016-02-15T18:07:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T18:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=1642"},"modified":"2016-02-15T18:07:27","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T18:07:27","slug":"the-high-window-by-raymond-chandler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/the-high-window-by-raymond-chandler\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The High Window<\/em> by Raymond Chandler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/2049.The_High_Window\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1389481765m\/2049.jpg\" alt=\"The High Window\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/2049.The_High_Window\">The High Window<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/1377.Raymond_Chandler\">Raymond Chandler<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1549312137\">5 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Raymond Chandler has a new fan. <em>The High Window<\/em> is pulp fiction at its finest. Private eye Philip Marlowe lives in a time and place where women are dames, restaurants are joints, lapels are wide as a two-car garage, and you could say that&#8217;s mighty white of you. Not a word emerges from his mouth that isn&#8217;t laden with witty sarcasm, cynicism, and a fearless moxie.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s hired by a rich, tough old biddy to find her missing Brasher Doubloon, a rare gold coin that was supposed to be in her late husband&#8217;s collection. Soon he finds a dead body and then another. The cops suspect him, of course. The story is almost bursting with dodgy characters &#8211; a coin dealer (he&#8217;s one of the bodies), a feckless private eye (the other body), the arrogant spoiled son of the biddy, a golddigging nightclub torcher, the owner of the joint where she sings, the goon who provides the muscle, a slick lothario named Vannier who&#8217;s making it with the club owner&#8217;s wife, a crusty elevator operator who notices a lot more than he lets on, and many more. You&#8217;ll need a chiropractor to straighten you out if you follow all the twists and turns of this plot.<\/p>\n<p>The style takes some getting used to if you haven&#8217;t read pulp fiction before. Chandler must have been paid by the word because Marlowe never enters a scene without describing every square inch of the room and the features and clothing of everyone in it. It&#8217;s done with such hardboiled wit, though, it never feels like filler. Anson the private eye, for example, &#8220;&#8230; held a smeared glass in his hand. It looked as if somebody had been keeping goldfish in it. He was a lanky man with carroty short hair growing down to a point on his forehead. He had a long narrow head packed with shabby cunning. Greenish eyes stared under orange eyebrows. His ears were large and might have flapped in a high wind. He had a long nose that would be into things &#8230; a face that held the effortless composure of a corpse in a morgue.&#8221; Anson lived in a room that &#8220;&#8230; was painted egg-yolk yellow. All it needed was a few fat black spiders painted on the yellow to be anybody&#8217;s bilious attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The book was made into a movie starring George Montgomery in 1947, but retitled as <em>The Brasher Doubloon.<\/em> Chandler&#8217;s first novel <em>The Big Sleep<\/em> is perhaps his best known movie oeuvre. He didn&#8217;t write the screenplay for that one, but he did for such classics as <em>Double Indemnity, Strangers On a Train,<\/em> and <em>The Blue Dahlia<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/12975428-russell-atkinson\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High Window by Raymond Chandler My rating: 5 of 5 stars Raymond Chandler has a new fan. The High Window is pulp fiction at its finest. 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