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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The High Window is a 1942 detective novel by Raymond Chandler and featuring Philip Marlowe.Marlowe is hired by Mrs Elizabeth Bright Murdoch, the widow of a wealthy philanthropist and coin collector. The Brasher Dubloon, an 18th-century coin that is the pride of the Murdoch collection, has gone missing; Mrs Murdoch suspects that one of her dysfunctional family has stolen it, and wants it retrieved without publicity.Marlowe's luck being what it is, it's not long before dead bodies start turning up. And then the Brasher Dubloon turns up as well — in two different places at once... | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Bright-Murdoch family is full of messy emotional undercurrents, love-hate relationships, and at least one carefully hushed-up murder. | |
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Aluminum Christmas Trees: As discussed in this article, the novel contains a puzzling-to-modern-readers reference to synthetic crowd noise at a Dodgers game broadcast on the radio, particularly given that the novel is set in California and was written well before the Dodgers left Brooklyn. As the article explains, between the 1920s and the 1950s there was an industry in re-creating baseball games for same-day delay broadcasts, and sportscasters (including future president Ronald Reagan) would mimic details such as crowd sounds and the noise of the bat in order to provide listeners with a realistic experience, when in fact they were reading the feed from a news ticker. | |
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