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The High Window

AuthorRaymond Chandler

NarratorEd Bishop

Duration1h 28m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Crime, Thriller and Mysteries, Plays and Dramatisations

PublisherBBC Audiobooks

VersionUnabridged

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Ed Bishop stars as Philip Marlowe in this powerfully atmospheric BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of Raymond Chandler's novel about the cynical, world-weary, wise-cracking shamus whose honesty in a dishonest world sent him down the mean streets again and again in search of some kind of justice. Linda Conquest was very tough, very kissable and very missing, along with one very valuable old coin. But for some reason the interested parties didn't seem too interested in finding either of them. Especially when the trail led to the underworld and beyond. And by then Marlowe was knee deep in dead men...

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