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The novel High Window, the third in the series about private detective Philip Marlowe, takes place in sunny but corrupt Los Angeles. Marlowe, a cynic at heart, navigates through the glitz of Hollywood, where high windows hide falls into the abyss.
Rich widow Elizabeth Bright Murdock hires Marlowe to find a missing rare gold coin, the Brasher Doubloon, worth $100,000, suspecting her daughter-in-law Linda Conquest, a former singer and the wife of her son Leslie. Marlowe is drawn into a labyrinth of family secrets: Murdock, cruel and manipulative, rules a house full of resentment, where a past trauma is hidden - the death of her first husband, Horace Bright, who fell from a high window.
Marlowe follows the clues: Leslie owes money to nightclub owner Alex Morny, whose wife Lois Magic (formerly Lois Mac) has connections with gangster Roy Vannier. She meets blond George Anson Phillips, a fake detective, who pretends to help, but ends up dead in a hotel room. Coin dealer Morningstar, who saw the Doubloon, is also murdered. Marlowe discovers forgeries, blackmail and love triangles: Linda is not guilty, but Vannier blackmails the Murdocks with photos of Bright's accident.
The key twist lies in the timid secretary Merle, who bears the burden of guilt for Bright's death - accident or murder? Marlowe reveals that Murdock pushed her husband and Leslie and Vannier forged the coin with dental chemistry. Phillips and Morningstar are killed to cover their tracks, and Vannier is killed by Leslie in a fit of rage. Marlowe, true to his code, does not betray Leslie, but relieves Merle of her trauma, taking her to her parents.
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