They have also received praise from such celebrated writers as William Goldman, Jonathan Kellerman, Eudora Welty and Elmore Leonard. While forest fires rage in the hills around Los Angeles, threatening the homes of some of the city's wealthiest families, Archer unearths a hidden history of failed marriages, runaway children, and a man's life consumed by a search for the father who abandoned him.Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer mysteries rewrote the conventions of the detective novel with their credible, humane hero, and with Macdonald's insight and moral complexity won new literary respectability for the hardboiled genre previously pioneered by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.
"When a chance encounter makes him a witness to the abduction of a child, private detective Lew Archer can't help but be drawn into the case, pursuing a trail that leads all too quickly to murder. Contact seller Seller Rating: Book Used - Hardcover Condition: GOOD US 5.18 Convert currency Free shipping Within U.S.A. Item #2330757 ISBN: 0394434676 First edition. Buy Ross Macdonald: Four Later Novels (LOA 295): Black Money / The Instant Enemy / The Goodbye Look / The Underground Man (Library of America Ross. The Underground Man Ross Macdonald Published by Alfred A Knopf, 1971 ISBN 10: 0394434676 ISBN 13: 9780394434674 Seller: Pro Quo Books, Toledo, OH, U.S.A.
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