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A Lew Archer Novel
Written by Ross Macdonald
Fiction - Mystery & Detective |
Vintage | Trade Paperback |
August 2001 | $
12.95 |
978-0-375-70867-1 (0-375-70867-7)
 
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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, $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.
PRAISE
“The writing is incisive and perceptive…forceful and fast-past…powerful and personal…a strange and haunting blend.”–The New York Times Book Review
“[Ross Macdonald] carried form and style about as far as they would go, writing classic family tragedies in the guise of private detective mysteries.”–The Guardian
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Ross Macdonald died in 1983.
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