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The high window book7/6/2023 Chandler usually managed to avoid those failures. Any work of mystery that has to have a lengthy explanation at the end of it to explain what happened is usually a failure. It is not a particularly interesting way of doing things. After all that back and forth, Marlowe explains what happened. They just happen 1,2,3 and each time Marlowe goes back to his client, a port drinking shut-in, only to have her refuse to answer his questions. Sure there are the murders and the mysterious young woman who is kept as a virtual slave in the house of his Marlowe’s client, but there isn’t any tension to them. Still, it feels a bit sanitized, as if the real dark side of LA had been overlooked. It has the usual collection of reprobates and self destructive lowlifes. In theory that should make for a better reading experience. Chandler’s The High Window is shorter and less robust than his other novels, but it is one of the few that I have not seen in a movie version (one exists from 1944 but it isn’t considered a particularly good film).
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