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Historical Echoes: Noir Gold – The Case Of The Brasher Doubloon
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 4:17
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from Liberty Street Economics
– this post authored by Amy Farber
Whatever the vagaries of the market, gold is a perennially hot commodity in the popular imagination – especially in the minds of authors and screenwriters. In this Historical Echoes post, we take a look at Raymond Chandler’s 1942 Philip Marlowe novel The High Window, which uses a stolen gold coin – the Brasher Doubloon – as a plot device.
