by Raymond Chandler · Diario El País, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496246942
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«La ventana alta» is the mystery novel by Raymond Chandler, published by Diario El País, S.A. in paperback (236 pages, in Spanish).
Philip Marlowe investigates the disappearance of a valuable coin, an apparently trivial assignment that soon becomes entangled in deceit, violence, and murder. The case confronts Marlowe with the facades of a wealthy family and hidden passions driven by greed.
La ventana alta is the third novel in the Philip Marlowe series and was originally published in 1942 as The High Window. The volume belongs to the Serie Negra collection from El País.
For lovers of classic crime fiction and Philip Marlowe cases.
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression. His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a pulp magazine. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime. All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once.
