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Author | : Ross Macdonald |
Publisher | : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
Total Pages | : 593 |
Release | : 2015-07-21 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101910127 |
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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 Here, The Archer Files collects all the Lew Archer short stories ever published, along with thirteen unpublished “case notes” and a fascinating biographical profile of Archer by Edgar Award finalist Tom Nolan.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 | : |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Archer, Lew (Fictitious character) |
ISBN | : 9781932009637 |
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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 | : John Curley & Assoc |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1988-01-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781555046392 |
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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 | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Archer, Lew (Fictitious character) |
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Author | : Ross Macdonald |
Publisher | : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2010-12-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307773337 |
Download Find a Victim Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Las Cruces wasn’t a place most travelers would think to stop. But after private investigator Lew Archer plays the good samaritan and picks up a bloodied hitchhiker, he finds himself in town for a few days awaiting a murder inquest. A hijacked truck full of liquor and an evidence box full of marijuana, $20,000 from a big-time bank heist by a small-time crook, corruption, adultery, incest, prodigal daughters, and abused wives all make the little town seem a lot more interesting than any guide book ever could. And as the murder rate rises, Archer finds himself caught up in mystery where everyone is a suspect and everyone’s a victim.
Author | : Ross Macdonald |
Publisher | : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2010-12-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307773183 |
Download The Moving Target Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2001-08-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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A dying hitchhiker leads Lew Archer into the dark side of the small town of Las Cruces, California.
Author | : Ross Macdonald |
Publisher | : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2011-02-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307759679 |
Download The Galton Case Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : John Curley & Assoc |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781555047030 |
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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 |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2011-01-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 030777290X |
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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?