In 1932, at age forty-four, Raymond Chandler decided to become a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Depression. Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter. It was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 8 October 2011. Starring Toby Stephens, this thrilling dramatisation by Robin Brooks retains all the wry humour of Chandler’s serpentine suspense novel. 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. That’s the simple part.īut Marlowe finds that everyone who handles the coin suffers a run of very bad luck: they always end up dead. 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. In The High Window, Marlowe starts out on the trail of a single stolen coin and ends up knee-deep in bodies. California in the ’40s and ’50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily. Toby Stephens stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Raymond Chandler’s third Philip Marlowe mystery.įast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world.
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