The Long Goodnight. Farewell, Beautiful. The High Window

He does not seek adventures — they find him instead, and the plot, rich with trademark dizzying twists, usually begins quite innocently. Thus, in «The Long Goodnight», retired General Sternwood asks Marlowe to deal with an adventurer who is blackmailing his younger daughter; in the first scene of the novel «Farewell, Beautiful», the detective merely reminds a thug that drinks must be paid for; and in «The High Window», widow Mrs. Murdock asks Marlowe to find the Brasher doubloon — a rare gold coin that has gone missing from her late husband's collection...

Raymond Chandler's books about Philip Marlowe not only laid the foundations of the «hard-boiled» detective genre but also became true classics. The collection includes the first three novels about the famous private detective: «The Long Goodnight», «Farewell, Beautiful», and «The High Window». Marlowe represents a new type of detective hero: he is a romantic, a sentimental knight, always maintaining his individuality and adhering to a code of honor.