The Ivory Grin Ross Macdonald

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307772879

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The Ivory Grin by Ross Macdonald Pdf

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 : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307773180

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The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald Pdf

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
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307759566

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Black Money by Ross Macdonald Pdf

When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who's run off with his client's girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections. Things look different when the mysterious foreigner turns out to be connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts. Black Money is Ross Macdonald at his finest, baring the skull beneath the untanned skin of Southern California's high society.

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375708664

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Sleeping Beauty by Ross Macdonald Pdf

In Sleeping Beauty, Lew Archer finds himself the confidant of a wealthy, violent family with a load of trouble on their hands--including an oil spill, a missing girl, a lethal dose of Nembutal, a six-figure ransom, and a stranger afloat, face down, off a private beach. Here is Ross Macdonald's masterful tale of buried memories, the consequences of arrogance, and the anguished relations between parents and their children. Riveting, gritty, tautly written, Sleeping Beauty is crime fiction at its best. If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it is Ross Macdonald. Between the late 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his pre-decessors had only hinted at. And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin.

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 52,6 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
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : 258 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Norfolk, Va. : Crippen & Landru
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015053382266

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Strangers in Town by Ross Macdonald Pdf

"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 : Bernard Schopen
Publisher : Boston : Twayne Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015016962493

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Ross Macdonald by Bernard Schopen Pdf

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307740755

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Meet Me at the Morgue by Ross Macdonald Pdf

Somebody in Pacific Point is guilty of a kidnapping, but what probation officer Howard Cross wants to find most is innocence: in an ex-war hero who has taken a tough manslaughter rap, in a wealthy woman with a heart full of secrets, and in a blue-eyed beauty who has lost her way. The trouble is that the abduction has already turned to murder, and the more Cross pries into the case the further he slips into a pool of violence and evil. Somewhere in the California desert the whole scheme may come down on the wrong man. Somewhere Cross is going to find the last piece of a bloody puzzle—a mystery of blackmail, passion, and hidden identities that might be better left unsolved.

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307740786

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The Ferguson Affair by Ross Macdonald Pdf

It was a long way from the million-dollar Foothill Club to Pelly Street, where grudges were settled in blood and Spanish and a stolen diamond ring landed a girl in jail. Defense lawyer Bill Gunnarson was making the trip—fast. He already knew a kidnapping at the club was tied to the girl's hot rock, and he suspected that a missing Hollywood starlet was the key to a busy crime ring. But while Gunnarson made his way through a storm of deception, money, drugs, and passions, he couldn't guess how some big shots and small-timers would all end up with murder in common...

Author : Ross Macdonald
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307759672

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The Galton Case by Ross Macdonald Pdf

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
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Mary Stanley Weinkauf
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780893702724

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Hard-boiled Heretic by Mary Stanley Weinkauf Pdf

A study of the character of Lew Archer and the novels that he appears in.

Author : Paul Nelson,Kevin Avery
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781606998885

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It's All One Case by Paul Nelson,Kevin Avery Pdf

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.