HIGH WINDOW, THE（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　A wealthy Pasadena widow with a mean streak, a missing
daughter-in-law with a past, and a gold coin worth a small
fortune—the elements don’t quite add up until Marlowe discovers
evidence of murder, rape, blackmail, and the worst kind of human
exploitation.
　　”Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude.”– Erle
Stanley Gardner
　　”Raymond Chandler has given us a detective who is hard-boiled
enough to be convincing . . . and that is no mean achievement.” —
The New York Times

　　Raymond Chandler was born in 1888 and published his first
story in 1933 in the pulp magazine Black Mask. By the time
he published his first novel, The Big Sleep (1939),
featuring, as did all his major works, the iconic private eye
Philip Marlowe, it was clear that he had not only mastered a genre
but had set a standard wo which others could only aspire. Chandler
created a body of work that ranks with the best of
twentieth-century literature. He died in 1959.

　　Raymond Chandler is a master. –The New York Times
　　?[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.? –The New
Yorker
　　?Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero:
wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical
and rebellious.? –Robert B. Parker, The New York Times Book
Review
　　?Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye.?
–Los Angeles Times
　　?Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even
Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist.? ?The Boston
Book Review
　　?Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the
twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandler?s prose. . .
. He wrote like an angel.? –Literary Review
　　?[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and
we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of
not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a
vision.? –Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books
　　?Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the
sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.? ?Ross
Macdonald
　　?Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude.? –Erle
Stanley Gardner
　　?Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America,
and America has never looked the same to us since.? –Paul
Auster
　　?[Chandler]?s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us
into a different world, a world that?s like ours, but isn?t. ?
–Carolyn See
　　– Review