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Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer, Private Investigator written by Ross Macdonald and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 1101910127
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Archer Files written by Ross Macdonald and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter what cases private eye Lew Archer takes on—a burglary, a runaway, or a disappeared person—the trail always leads to tangled family secrets and murder. Widely considered the heir to Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Archer dug up secrets and bodies in and around Los Angeles. Here, The Archer Files collects all the Lew Archer short stories ever published, along with thirteen unpublished “case notes” and a fascinating biographical profile of Archer by Edgar Award finalist Tom Nolan. Ross Macdonald’s signature staccato prose is the real star throughout this collection, which is both a perfect introduction for the newcomer and a must-have for the Macdonald aficionado.
Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307773183
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Moving Target written by Ross Macdonald and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in Ross Macdonald's acclaimed Lew Archer series introduces the detective who redefined the role of the American private eye and gave the crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity only hinted at before. Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now one of Sampson's friends may have arranged his kidnapping. As Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the megarich to jazz joints where you get beaten up between sets, The Moving Target blends sex, greed, and family hatred into an explosively readable crime novel.
Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307279057
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Instant Enemy written by Ross Macdonald and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2008-04-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generations of murder, greed and deception come home to roost in time for the most shocking conclusion ever in a Lew Archer novel. At first glance, it's an open-and-shut missing persons case: a headstrong daughter has run off to be with her hothead juvenile delinquent boyfriend. That is until this bush-league Bonnie & Clyde kidnap Stephen Hackett, a local millionaire industrialist. Now, Archer is offered a cool 100 Gs for his safe return by his coquettish heiress mother who has her own mysterious ties to this disturbed duo. But the deeper Archer digs, the more he realizes that nothing is as it seems and everything is questionable. Is the boyfriend a psycho ex-con with murder on the brain or a damaged youngster trying to straighten out his twisted family tree? And is the daughter simply his nympho sex-kitten companion in crime or really a fragile kid, trying to block out horrific memories of bad acid and an unspeakable sex crime?
Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307759679
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Galton Case written by Ross Macdonald and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lew Archer returns in this gripping mystery, widely recognized as one of acclaimed mystery writer Ross Macdonald's very best, about the search for the long lost heir of the wealthy Galton family. Almost twenty years have passed since Anthony Galton disappeared, along with a suspiciously streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of his family's fortune. Now Anthony's mother wants him back and has hired Lew Archer to find him. What turns up is a headless skeleton, a boy who claims to be Galton's son, and a con game whose stakes are so high that someone is still willing to kill for them. Devious and poetic, The Galton Case displays MacDonald at the pinnacle of his form.
Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Find a Victim written by Ross Macdonald and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2001-08-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dying hitchhiker leads Lew Archer into the dark side of the small town of Las Cruces, California.
Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141196580
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The Underground Man written by Ross Macdonald and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this noir mystery, PI Lew Archer is hired to track down a missing child, but becomes embroiled in a baffling forest fire that threatens an affluent Southern California community.
Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Norfolk, Va. : Crippen & Landru
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Strangers in Town written by Ross Macdonald and published by Norfolk, Va. : Crippen & Landru. This book was released on 2001 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In an important literary discovery, Macdonald biographer, Tom Nolan, unearthed three previously unpublished private-eye stories by Ross Macdonald. 'Death by Water, ' written in 1945, features Macdonald's first detective Joe Rogers, and two novelettes from 1950 and 1955, 'Strangers in Town' and 'The Angry Man, ' are detailed cases of Lew Archer."--
Author : Ross MacDonald
Publisher : John Curley & Assoc
ISBN 13 : 9781555046392
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (463 download)
Download or read book Lew Archer Private Investigator written by Ross MacDonald and published by John Curley & Assoc. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lew Archer, the hard-nosed detective with a heart of gold, threads his way through a host of mysteries peopled with a slew of nefarious characters
Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307773159
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Far Side of the Dollar written by Ross Macdonald and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2010-12-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Far Side of the Dollar, private investigator Lew Archer is looking for an unstable rich kid who has run away from an exclusive reform school—and into the arms of kidnappers. Why are his desperate parents so loath to give Archer the information he needs to find him? And why do all trails lead to a derelict Hollywood hotel where starlets and sailors once rubbed elbows with two-bit grifters—and where the present clientele includes a brand-new corpse? The result is Ross Macdonald at his most exciting, delivering 1,000-volt shocks to the nervous system while uncovering the venality and depravity at the heart of the case.
Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781932009637
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Archer Files written by Ross Macdonald and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ross Macdonald (1915-1983) was the author of eighteen books that a New York Times critic called "the finest series of detective novels ever written by an American": the Lew Archer canon, which included such breakthrough best-sellers as The Underground Man, The Goodbye Look, and The Blue Hammer. Macdonald (born Kenneth Millar) also wrote several novelettes and short-stories involving Southern California private-detective Lew Archer.The Archer Files for the first time collects all the brief Archer fiction: the stories from Macdonald's 1955 paperback-original The Name Is Archer, the additional tales included in the Otto Penzler-edited 1977 volume Lew Archer: Private Investigator, and the three then-unknown novellas presented in Crippen & Landru's 2001 book Strangers in Town.Also included in The Archer Files are several lengthy, never-before-published fragments of unfinished Macdonald stories: "case notes," as it were, from the files of Lew Archer.Edited by Macdonald biographer Tom Nolan, The Archer Files is prefaced with Nolan's biographical sketch of Lew Archer himself the character Eudora Welty described as "a champion" and "a distinguished creation ... As a detective and as a man he takes the human situation with full seriousness." Jeff Wong's cover is adapted from the 1955 paperback original, but depicting Ross Macdonald rather than Lew Archer.
Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307759598
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Chill written by Ross Macdonald and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Chill a distraught young man hires private investigator Lew Archer to track down his runaway bride. But no sooner has he found Dolly Kincaid than Archer finds himself entangled in two murders, one twenty years old, the other so recent that the blood is still wet. What ensues is a detective novel of nerve-racking suspense, desperately believable characters, and one of the most intricate plots ever spun by an American crime writer.
Author : Paul Nelson
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
ISBN 13 : 1606998889
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (69 download)
Download or read book It's All One Case written by Paul Nelson and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a prose series of unpublished interviews with, and a visual retrospective of, the seminal mid- to late-20th century literary crime writer. In 1976, critic Paul Nelson spent several weeks interviewing legendary detective writer Ross Macdonald, who elevated the form to a new literary level. “We talked about everything imaginable,” Nelson wrote―including Macdonald’s often meager beginnings; his dual citizenship; writers, painters, music, and movies he admired; The Great Gatsby, his favorite book; how he used symbolism to change detective writing; and more. This book, published in a handsome, oversized format, collects these unpublished interviews and is a visual history of Macdonald’s professional career. It is illustrated with rare and select items from one of the world’s largest private archives of Macdonald ephemera; reproduces, in full color, the covers of the various editions of Macdonald’s more than two dozen books; collects facsimile reproductions of select pages from his manuscripts, as well as magazine spreads; and presents rare photos, many never before seen.
Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Instant Enemy written by Ross Macdonald and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 030777287X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Ivory Grin written by Ross Macdonald and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2010-12-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveling from sleazy motels to stately seaside manors, The Ivory Grin is one of Lew Archer's most violent and macabre cases ever. A hard-faced woman clad in a blue mink stole and dripping with diamonds hires Lew Archer to track down her former maid, who she claims has stolen her jewelry. Archer can tell he's being fed a line, but curiosity gets the better of him and he accepts the case. He tracks the wayward maid to a ramshackle motel in a seedy, run-down small town, but finds her dead in her tiny room, with her throat slit from ear to ear. Archer digs deeper into the case and discovers a web of deceit and intrigue, with crazed number-runners from Detroit, gorgeous triple-crossing molls, and a golden-boy shipping heir who’s gone mysteriously missing.
Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Dissertations-G
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Drowning Pool written by Ross Macdonald and published by Dissertations-G. This book was released on 1976 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out of print since 1988, here is a classic Lew Archer thriller by Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Ross Macdonald. When an iron-willed matriarch with an oil field in her backyard is found floating in the pool, Lew Archer ventures into the bizarre world of her family. Previous publisher: Bantam. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Ross MacDonald
Publisher : John Curley & Assoc
ISBN 13 : 9781555046408
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Lew Archer Private Investigator written by Ross MacDonald and published by John Curley & Assoc. This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lew Archer, the hard-nosed detective with a heart of gold, threads his way through a host of mysteries peopled with a slew of nefarious characters
