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'The new crime and espionage series from Penguin Classics makes for
a mouth-watering prospect' Daily Telegraph Maude Slocum is in
trouble. But luckily trouble is Investigator Lew Archer's business.
A well-dressed, wealthy woman has arrived at Archer's L.A. office,
having intercepted a poison pen letter accusing her of adultery.
Reluctantly agreeing to help her find the culprit, he dives into
the Slocums' moneyed, oil-rich California world. But when Maude's
mother-in-law is found dead in the swimming pool, secrets come to
the surface too. For the urbane, world-weary Archer, a case of
blackmail soon becomes murder.
Intended for the general student of the Indonesian language and the
professional linguist, this short descriptive grammar is a useful
guide as a well as a point of departure for more intensive study.
Bruce Carscadden Architect is a design studio based in
Vancouver. In a decade of practice, their studio has designed and
executed numerous building types for a variety of clients, with an
emphasis on community recreation projects in British Columbia.
Carscadden Thrift is structured in the spirit of the translation
from drawing (speculation) to material (actual). Photographs
document the messy realities of construction and are referenced to
select drawings. The analogy to a set of contract documents is
obvious but not superficial. It requires readers to examine both in
order to understand the nature of a project, projects that taken
collectively describe the culture of the studio and the firm's
attempts to understand questions posited by the constraints of
scale, site and schedule.
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.
Silken skin pale against dark hair, red lips provocatively smiling
at him--that's how Lieutenant Bret Taylor remembered Lorraine. He
was drunk when he married her, stone cold sober when he found her
dead. Out on the sunlit streets of L.A. walked the man--her lover,
her killer--who had been with her that fatal night. Taylor intended
to find him. And when he did, the gun in his pocket would provide
the quickest kind of justice. But first Taylor had to find
something else: an elusive memory so powerful it drove him down
three terrifying roads toward self-destruction--grief, ecstasty,
and death.
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Blue City (Paperback)
Ross Macdonald
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He was a son who hadn't known his father very well. It was a town
shaken by a grisly murder--his father's murder. Johnny Weatherly
was home from a war and wandering. When he found out that his
father had been assassinated on a street corner and that his
father's seductive young wife had inherited a fortune, he started
knocking on doors. The doors came open, and Johnny stepped into a
world of gamblers, whores, drug-dealers, and blackmailers, a place
in which his father had once moved freely. Now Johnny Weatherly was
going to solve this murder--by pitting his rage, his courage, and
his lost illusions against the brutal underworld that has overtaken
his hometown.
In the colorful and letter-filled Capital City, there's never a
moment's rest for Private I, the city's best investigator. Trouble
seems to always have a way of finding him-trouble with a capital T.
On this particular day, T tells Private I that his watch is
missing. And T isn't alone-the citizens of Capital City have lost
track of timepieces all over town! Can Private I catch the perp and
make up for lost time before it's too late?
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Manhunt, May 1953 (Paperback)
John Ross MacDonald, Craig Rice, Evan Hunter
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Ivory Grin, the (Paperback)
Ross Macdonald
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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.
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The Doomsters (Paperback)
Ross Macdonald
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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 they've has been investing heavily in political
intimidation and police brutality to shore up their rancid wealth.
However, after years of dastardly double-crossing and low down
dirty-dealing, the family seem to be on the receiving end of a
karmic death-blow. With two dead already and another consigned to
the nuthouse, Archer races to crack the secret before another
Hallman lands on the slab.Murder, madness and greed grace "The
Doomsters," where a tony facade masks the rot and corruption
within.
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 discovers a troubled blonde, a stash of wartime letters, a mysterious hobo. Then a stiff turns up in a car on an empty beach. And Nick turns up with a Colt .45. In The Goodbye Look, Ross Macdonald delves into the world of the rich and the troubled and reveals that the past has a deadly way of catching up to the present.
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.
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The Chill (Paperback)
Ross Macdonald
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Private detective Lew Archer has better things to do than take on
an investigation for Alex Kincaid, a young man claiming that his
new bride, Dolly, has gone missing. Snapped by a hotel photographer
on the day of their wedding, the beautiful girl vanished only hours
after and Alex has heard nothing since. But when Archer begins
digging, he finds evidence that links Dolly to brutal murders that
span two decades, and a terrible secret. In this byzantine and
compelling tale, Ross Macdonald explores the darkest experiences
that can bind a family together - and tear it apart. 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.
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 Wycherly woman, Phoebe's mother, an eerily unmaternal blonde who keeps too many residences, has too many secrets, and leaves too many corpses in her wake.
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.
From his vantage point in Southern California--and through the eyes
of his great creation, private eye Lew Archer--Ross Macdonald (the
pseudonymn of Kenneth Millar) fashions a haunting, startlingly
immediate vision of modern America: a swirling mix of sexual
exploitation, intergenerational conflict, racial animosities, and
ecological disaster. In Black Money, Archer is hired to find a
wealthy man gone missing and soon finds himself investigating a
suspicious seven-year-old suicide. The case becomes a peeling away
of many levels of deception, delusion, and false identity.
Exploring themes of immigration and border-crossing central to
Macdonald's own life, Black Money also pays homage to The Great
Gatsby, one of his favorite books. The Instant Enemy begins with
Archer's search for a runaway teenage daughter and her troubled,
possibly murderous boyfriend, a search that uncovers a morass of
hidden wrongs. In an emotionally intense work that reflects the
chaos and conflicts of his family's troubled past, Macdonald gives
indelible and ultimately tragic expression to the generational
conflict and drug culture of the DJHCs. An investigation into "a
rather peculiar burglary" takes a drastic turn with the discovery
of a body in an abandoned car on a beach in The Goodbye Look, the
book that sealed Macdonald's reputation as the preeminent crime
novelist of his time. Tracking a stolen heirloom, Archer follows a
trail of violence that lays bare a miasma of buried secrets and
unforgotten traumas. "In our day," wrote Eudora Welty, "it is for
such a novel as The Underground Man that the detective form
exists." A raging wildfire stirred by the Santa Ana winds serves as
prelude to a chain of kidnapping and murder. Youthful rebellion is
pitted against the hypocrisies of the older generation in a novel,
in Welty's estimation, "not only exhilaratingly well done; it is
also very moving."
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'I can't make your girl come back if she doesn't want to. I told
you that on the phone' But something changes... 'The finest series
of detective novels ever written by an American' William Goldman 'A
beautiful job, rich in plot and character...surprising and
shocking' NEW YORK TIMES 'I love the Lew Archer books' James Ellroy
When Lew Archer is hired to find out the truth about a suspiciously
suave Frenchman who has run off with his client's girlfriend, it
looks like a simple enough case. But things start to look very
different when Archer connects the elusive foreigner with a
seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts. BLACK
MONEY is Ross Macdonald at his very finest, revealing the skull
beneath the sun-kissed skin of Southern California.
As a mysterious fire rages through the hills above a privileged
town in Southern California, Archer tracks a missing child who may
be the pawn in a marital struggle or the victim of a
bizarrekidnapping. What he uncovers amid the ashes is murder--and a
trail of motives as combustible as gasoline. "The Underground Man
"is a detective novel of merciless suspense andtragic depth, with
an unfaltering insight into the moral ambiguities at the heart of
California's version of the American dream.
If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell
Hammetand Raymond Chandler, it was 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 predecessors had
only hintedat. 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 humansin.
"From the Trade Paperback edition."
A raw, gripping debut novel about overcoming the fear of the world.
When Orville James McFadden witnesses the murder of his grandmother
and sister, he unwittingly starts down a haunting path of fear, one
that inevitably leads him to attempt to end it all by jumping off
the Ballard Bridge-but he finds himself alive, handcuffed and in a
hospital, wherein he must learn to choose to live-upon his release,
Orville is driven to take bold action and moves to Vietnam for the
greatest adventure of his life, but he soon discovers that a life
worth living comes with a heavy price.
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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
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.
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