The Archer Files

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101910122

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The Archer Files by Ross Macdonald Pdf

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 Here, The Archer Files collects all the Lew Archer short stories ever published, along with thirteen unpublished “case notes” and a fascinating biographical profile of Archer by Edgar Award finalist Tom Nolan.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,Tom Nolan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Archer, Lew (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 1932009639

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The Archer Files by Ross Macdonald,Tom Nolan Pdf

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
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101910139

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The Archer Files by Ross Macdonald Pdf

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
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593467763

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The Bearded Lady by Ross Macdonald Pdf

In this short story from Ross Macdonald’s The Archer Files, detective Lew Archer stops in town to look in on an old army buddy, an artist, only to find that he has mysteriously disappeared. Seemingly the only clue is a disturbing charcoal sketch of a woman with a thick beard sitting in his studio. As Archer finds himself drawn into the investigation, it soon becomes clear that things are not what they seem. And that no one is above suspicion. A Vintage Short.

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110353369

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Find a Victim by Ross Macdonald Pdf

A dying hitchhiker leads Lew Archer into the dark side of the small town of Las Cruces, California.

Author : Phillip D. Jensen
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Preaching
ISBN : 1921441801

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The Archer and the Arrow by Phillip D. Jensen Pdf

This book is about a sentence 40 years in the making: "My aim is to preach the gospel by prayerfully expounding the Bible to the people God has given me to love" (Phillip Jensen). Join Phillip Jensen and Paul Grimmond as they explore each phrase in this carefully wrought statement, and show not only why faithful, powerful, biblical preaching is so important, but how to go about it. --from publisher website.

Author : O.Henry
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:SMP2200000101129

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Mammon and the Archer by O.Henry Pdf

The story is about a wealthy businessman whose son wants to propose to his sweetheart before she leaves the USA for Europe in a couple of days’ time. Although the son believes that money cannot buy you time – the one thing he dearly needs more of if he is to woo his beloved – the events of the story suggest that money can be used to buy someone extra time. O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings.

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307772862

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The Way Some People Die by Ross Macdonald Pdf

In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Archer's hand and asks him to find her wandering daughter, Galatea. Described as ‘crazy for men’ and without discrimination, she was last seen driving off with small-time gangster Joe Tarantine, a hophead hood with a rep for violence. Archer traces the hidden trail from San Francisco slum alleys to the luxury of Palm Springs, traveling through an urban wilderness of drugs and viciousness. As the bodies begin to pile up, he finds that even angel faces can mask the blackest of hearts.Filled with dope, delinquents and murder, this is classic Macdonald and one of his very best in the Lew Archer series.

Author : Nate Jones
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781620972625

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Able Archer 83 by Nate Jones Pdf

In November 1983, Soviet nuclear forces went on high alert. After months nervously watching increasingly assertive NATO military posturing, Soviet intelligence agencies in Western Europe received flash telegrams reporting alarming activity on U.S. bases. In response, the Soviets began planning for a countdown to a nuclear first strike by NATO on Eastern Europe. And then Able Archer 83, a vast NATO war game exercise that modeled a Soviet attack on NATO allies, ended. What the West didn’t know at the time was that the Soviets thought Operation Able Archer 83 was real and were actively preparing for a surprise missile attack from NATO. This close scrape with Armageddon was largely unknown until last October when the U.S. government released a ninety-four-page presidential analysis of Able Archer that the National Security Archive had spent over a decade trying to declassify. Able Archer 83 is based upon more than a thousand pages of declassified documents that archive staffer Nate Jones has pried loose from several U.S. government agencies and British archives, as well as from formerly classified Soviet Politburo and KGB files, vividly recreating the atmosphere that nearly unleashed nuclear war.

Author : Paulo Coelho
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593318270

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The Archer by Paulo Coelho Pdf

From the #1 best-selling author of The Alchemist comes an inspiring story about a young man seeking wisdom from an elder, and the practical lessons imparted along the way. Includes stunning illustrations by Christoph Niemann. “A novelist who writes in a universal language.” —The New York Times In The Archer we meet Tetsuya, a man once famous for his prodigious gift with a bow and arrow but who has since retired from public life, and the boy who comes searching for him. The boy has many questions, and in answering them Tetsuya illustrates the way of the bow and the tenets of a meaningful life. Paulo Coelho's story suggests that living without a connection between action and soul cannot fulfill, that a life constricted by fear of rejection or failure is not a life worth living. Instead one must take risks, build courage, and embrace the unexpected journey fate has to offer. With the wisdom, generosity, simplicity, and grace that have made him an international best seller, Paulo Coelho provides the framework for a rewarding life: hard work, passion, purpose, thoughtfulness, the willingness to fail, and the urge to make a difference.

Author : Jean C. Archer
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Courtship
ISBN : 9781465504579

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The Adventures of Samuel and Selina by Jean C. Archer Pdf

Author : Edgar Wallace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
ISBN : OXFORD:N10512437

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The Green Archer by Edgar Wallace Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789042025981

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Corpus Linguistics by Anonim Pdf

Throughout history, linguists and literary scholars have been impelled by curiosity about particular linguistic or literary phenomena to seek to observe them in action in original texts. The fruits of each earlier enquiry in turn nourish the desire to continue to acquire knowledge, through further observation of newer linguistic facts. As time goes by, the corpus linguist operates increasingly in the awareness of what has gone before. Corpus Linguistics, thirty years on, is less an innocent sortie into corpus territory on the basis of a hunch than an informed, critical reassessment of existing analytical orthodoxy, in the light of new data coming on stream. This volume comprises twenty-two articles penned by members of the ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Mediaeval English) association, which together provide a critical and informed reappraisal of the facts, data, methods and tools of Corpus Linguistics which are available today. Authors reconsider the boundaries of the discipline, exploring its areas of commonality with Sociolinguistics, Language Variation, Discourse Linguistics, and Lexical Statistics and showing how that commonality is potentially of immense benefit to practitioners in the fields concerned. The volume culminates in the report of a timely and novel expert panel discussion on the role of Corpus Linguistics in the study of English as a global language. This encompasses issues such as English as an international lingua franca, ‘norms’ for global English, and the question of ‘ownership’, or who qualifies as a native speaker.

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307773494

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The Blue Hammer by Ross Macdonald Pdf

The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Detective Lew 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 Archer, but that was before the bodies began piling up. Suddenly, Archer find himself smack in the middle of a decades-long mystery of a brilliant artist who walked into the desert and simply disappeared. He left behind a bevy of muses, molls, dolls, and dames-each one scrambling for what they thought was rightfully theirs.

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307773159

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The Far Side of the Dollar by Ross Macdonald Pdf

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.