Lew Archer, world-weary private investigator, is hired by Larry and
Irene Chalmers when they suspect that their troubled son Nick is
involved in their own burglary. But when a fellow investigator -
one who's been working with Nick - turns up dead, Archer soon
realizes this isn't simply about some stolen loot. To help their
son, Archer must uncover the truth about a kidnap years ago, and
discover why the handgun from a decades-old killing apparently
turns up at every new and terrible murder. In The Goodbye Look,
Ross Macdonald exposes the damage families can cause one another in
the name of love, lies and greed. 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. They
have also received praise from such celebrated writers as William
Goldman, Jonathan Kellerman, Eudora Welty and Elmore Leonard.
General
Imprint: |
Penguin Classics
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Penguin Modern Classics |
Release date: |
July 2012 |
First published: |
July 2012 |
Authors: |
Ross Macdonald
|
Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - B-format
|
Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-14-119660-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
0-14-119660-2 |
Barcode: |
9780141196602 |
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