However, the dialog is terrific, even if I didn't care for the characters. There are a lot of characters, and they were hard to keep track of. In this one none of the characters were particularly sympathetic and we don't get to know them very well. But in both of the earlier novels I found other characters to like and sympathize with. This is still an excellent book, it just doesn't match up to the first two he wrote. I did not like this novel as much as the previous two in the series: The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely. The coin that is missing is a Brasher Doubloon, in mint condition and very valuable. You would think that she could ask her son about it, but apparently no one in this family talks to anyone else. She thinks that her daughter-in-law took it, and she wants Marlowe to find it. In The High Window, Marlowe is called in by a wealthy widow, Elizabeth Bright Murdock, because a coin in her late husband's coin collection is missing.
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