By: Ross MacDonald
Not since the novels of Nathaniel West has the theme of American innocence grinding to a stop at the polluted waters of the Pacific so consistently reverberated through a body of writing.''-Detroit News
By: Ross MacDonald
Doctor Robert Branch is a university professor, not a secret agent. But his best friend is dead, and Branch knows it wasn't suicide. He is also certain the murder was arranged by a Nazi espionage group operating on campus. The trouble is that no...
By: Ross MacDonald
When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face down in the family pool, the prime suspects are her good-for-nothing son and his seductive teenaged daughter. In The Drowning Pool, Lew Archer takes this case in the L.A. suburbs and encounters a...
By: Ross MacDonald
In the character of Lew Archer, Ross Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin -- and in so doing, gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral...
By: Ross MacDonald
Not since the novels of Nathaniel West has the theme of American innocence grinding to a stop at the polluted waters of the Pacific so consistently reverberated through a body of writing.''-Detroit News
By: Ross MacDonald
In the character of Lew Archer, Ross Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin -- and in so doing, gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral...
By: Ross MacDonald
When Archer is hired to get the goods on the Frenchman whos run off with his clients girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affectionsuntil he discovers the mysterious foreigner is connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of...
By: Ross MacDonald
The hitchhiker stumbles to his knees on the side of a dark road. Private detective Lew Archer breaks his car. When he gets to the young man, Archer realizes he has stumbled into a mess--for the hitchhiker is dying of a gunshot wound. In a...
By: Ross MacDonald
The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art. Finding a purloined portrait of a leggy blonde was supposed to be an easy paycheck for Detective Lew Archer, but...
By: Ross MacDonald
The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art. Finding a purloined portrait of a leggy blonde was supposed to be an easy paycheck for Detective Lew Archer, but...
By: Ross MacDonald
Lew Archer knew he shouldn't have taken the case, but Alex Kincaid seemed so desperate. Kincaid's loving new bride, Dolly, had just inexplicably walked out on him, leaving Kincaid more than a little fearful for her sanity and her safety. So Archer...
By: Ross MacDonald
Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her. That was plenty of time for a young girl who wanted to disappear to do so thoroughly--or for someone to make her disappear. Before he can find the Wycherly...
By: Ross MacDonald
Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her. That was plenty of time for a young girl who wanted to disappear to do so thoroughly--or for someone to make her disappear. Before he can find the Wycherly...
By: Ross MacDonald
When a kidnapping leads to four murders, Howard Cross searches for the killer deep in the Los Angeles underworld, finding an adolescent mourning a dead lover, a suitcase hidden under an aging sadist's bed, and a slovenly man with an ice pick in his...
By: Ross MacDonald
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