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Ross Macdonald's real name was Kenneth Millar. Born near San Francisco in 1915 and raised in Ontario, Millar returned to the U.S. as a young man and
published his first novel in 1944. He served as the president of the Mystery Writers of America and was awarded their Grand Master Award as well as
the Mystery Writers of Great Britain's Gold Dagger Award. He died in 1983.
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The Food Snob's Dictionary
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $12.95
Food Snob n: reference term for the sort of food obsessive for whom the actual joy of eating and cooking is but a side dish to the accumulation of arcane knowledge about these subjects
From the author of The United States of Arugula--and coauthor of The Film Snob’s Dictionary and The Rock... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $12.95
Food Snob n: reference term for the sort of food obsessive for whom the actual joy of eating and cooking is but a side dish to the accumulation of arcane knowledge about these subjects
From the author of The United States of Arugula--and coauthor of The Film Snob’s Dictionary and The Rock... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Way Some People Die
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $14.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $14.00
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... Read more >
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The Ivory Grin
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $14.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2007
Price: $14.00
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... Read more >
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Boys of Steel
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Price: $16.99
JERRY SIEGEL AND Joe Shuster, two misfit teens in Depression-era Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent—meek, mild, and myopic—than his secret identity, Superman. Both boys escaped into the worlds of science fiction and pulp magazine adventure tales. Jerry wrote stories, and Joe illustrated them. In 1934, they created a superhero who... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2008
Price: $16.99
JERRY SIEGEL AND Joe Shuster, two misfit teens in Depression-era Cleveland, were more like Clark Kent—meek, mild, and myopic—than his secret identity, Superman. Both boys escaped into the worlds of science fiction and pulp magazine adventure tales. Jerry wrote stories, and Joe illustrated them. In 1934, they created a superhero who... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover library binding.
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The Drowning Pool
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 3, 1996
Price: $13.95
When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face-down in the family pool, the prime suspects are her good-for-nothing son and his seductive teenage daughter. In The Drowning Pool, Lew Archer takes this case in the L.A. suburbs and encounters a moral wasteland of corporate greed and family hatred--and sufficient motive for... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 3, 1996
Price: $13.95
When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face-down in the family pool, the prime suspects are her good-for-nothing son and his seductive teenage daughter. In The Drowning Pool, Lew Archer takes this case in the L.A. suburbs and encounters a moral wasteland of corporate greed and family hatred--and sufficient motive for... Read more >
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The Instant Enemy
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $14.00
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $14.00
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... Read more >
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The Galton Case
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: November 26, 1996
Price: $13.95
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: November 26, 1996
Price: $13.95
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... Read more >
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The Blue Hammer
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $14.00
The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only 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 Detective Lew Archer, but that was before... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $14.00
The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only 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 Detective Lew Archer, but that was before... Read more >
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The Chill
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 3, 1996
Price: $12.95
In The Chill a distraught young man hires 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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 3, 1996
Price: $12.95
In The Chill a distraught young man hires 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... Read more >
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The Barbarous Coast
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2007
Price: $12.95
The beautiful, high-diving blonde had Hollywood dreams and stars in her eyes but now she seems to have disappeared without a trace. Hired by her hotheaded husband and her rummy “uncle,” Lew Archer sniffs around Malibu and finds the stink of blackmail, blood-money, and murder on every pricey silk shirt. Beset... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2007
Price: $12.95
The beautiful, high-diving blonde had Hollywood dreams and stars in her eyes but now she seems to have disappeared without a trace. Hired by her hotheaded husband and her rummy “uncle,” Lew Archer sniffs around Malibu and finds the stink of blackmail, blood-money, and murder on every pricey silk shirt. Beset... Read more >
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The Moving Target
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 3, 1998
Price: $12.95
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: March 3, 1998
Price: $12.95
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... Read more >
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Black Money
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 3, 1996
Price: $12.95
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 3, 1996
Price: $12.95
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... Read more >
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The Underground Man
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: November 26, 1996
Price: $14.00
As a mysterious fire rages through an affluent community in Southern California, Lew Archer tracks a missing--and possibly kidnapped--child and uncovers and entire secret history of wayward parents, wounded offspring, and murder. Along with its merciless suspense, The Underground Man possesses a moral vision as complex as that of a classic... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: November 26, 1996
Price: $14.00
As a mysterious fire rages through an affluent community in Southern California, Lew Archer tracks a missing--and possibly kidnapped--child and uncovers and entire secret history of wayward parents, wounded offspring, and murder. Along with its merciless suspense, The Underground Man possesses a moral vision as complex as that of a classic... Read more >
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Find a Victim
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2001
Price: $12.95
Las Cruces wasn’t a place most travelers would think to stop. But after 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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2001
Price: $12.95
Las Cruces wasn’t a place most travelers would think to stop. But after 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... Read more >
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The Doomsters
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2007
Price: $14.00
Hired by Carl Hallman, the desperate-eyed junkie scion of an obscenely wealthy political dynasty, detective Lew Archer investigates the suspicious deaths of his parents, Senator Hallman and his wife Alicia. Arriving in the sleepy town of Purissima, Archer discovers that orange groves may be where the Hallmans made their mint, but... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2007
Price: $14.00
Hired by Carl Hallman, the desperate-eyed junkie scion of an obscenely wealthy political dynasty, detective Lew Archer investigates the suspicious deaths of his parents, Senator Hallman and his wife Alicia. Arriving in the sleepy town of Purissima, Archer discovers that orange groves may be where the Hallmans made their mint, but... Read more >
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The Far Side of the Dollar
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: November 26, 1996
Price: $13.95
Has Tom Hillman run away from his exclusive reform school, or has he been kidnapped? Are his wealthy parents protecting him or their own guilty secrets? And why does every clue lead Lew Archer to an abandoned Hollywood hotel, where starlets and sailors once rubbed shoulders with grifters--and where the present... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: November 26, 1996
Price: $13.95
Has Tom Hillman run away from his exclusive reform school, or has he been kidnapped? Are his wealthy parents protecting him or their own guilty secrets? And why does every clue lead Lew Archer to an abandoned Hollywood hotel, where starlets and sailors once rubbed shoulders with grifters--and where the present... Read more >
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The Goodbye Look
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2000
Price: $12.95
In The Goodbye Look, Lew Archer is hired to investigate a burglary at the mission-style mansion of Irene and Larry Chalmers. The prime suspect, their son Nick, has a talent for disappearing, and the Chalmerses are a family with money and memories to burn. As Archer zeros in on Nick, he... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2000
Price: $12.95
In The Goodbye Look, Lew Archer is hired to investigate a burglary at the mission-style mansion of Irene and Larry Chalmers. The prime suspect, their son Nick, has a talent for disappearing, and the Chalmerses are a family with money and memories to burn. As Archer zeros in on Nick, he... Read more >
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Sleeping Beauty
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2000
Price: $13.95
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... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: December 5, 2000
Price: $13.95
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... Read more >
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The Zebra-Striped Hearse
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 3, 1998
Price: $12.95
Strictly speaking, Lew Archer is only supposed to dig up the dirt on a rich man's suspicious soon-to-be son-in-law. But in no time at all Archer is following a trail of corpses from the citrus belt to Mazatlan. And then there is the zebra-striped hearse and its crew of beautiful, sunburned... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 3, 1998
Price: $12.95
Strictly speaking, Lew Archer is only supposed to dig up the dirt on a rich man's suspicious soon-to-be son-in-law. But in no time at all Archer is following a trail of corpses from the citrus belt to Mazatlan. And then there is the zebra-striped hearse and its crew of beautiful, sunburned... Read more >
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The Wycherly Woman
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 3, 1998
Price: $14.95
Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her. That was plenty of time for a young girl who wanted to disappear to do so thoroughly--or for someone to make her disappear. Before he can find the Wycherly girl, Archer has to deal with the... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 3, 1998
Price: $14.95
Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her. That was plenty of time for a young girl who wanted to disappear to do so thoroughly--or for someone to make her disappear. Before he can find the Wycherly girl, Archer has to deal with the... Read more >
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The Food Snob's Dictionary
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $12.95
Food Snob n: reference term for the sort of food obsessive for whom the actual joy of eating and cooking is but a side dish to the accumulation of arcane knowledge about these subjects
From the author of The United States of Arugula--and coauthor of The Film Snob’s Dictionary and The Rock... Read more >
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2009
Price: $12.95
Food Snob n: reference term for the sort of food obsessive for whom the actual joy of eating and cooking is but a side dish to the accumulation of arcane knowledge about these subjects
From the author of The United States of Arugula--and coauthor of The Film Snob’s Dictionary and The Rock... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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