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The Drowning Pool (Paperback): Ross Macdonald The Drowning Pool (Paperback)
Ross Macdonald
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R270 R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Save R59 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'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.

A Student's Reference Grammar of Modern Formal Indonesian (Paperback, 2 Rev Ed): R. Ross MacDonald, Soenjono Darjowidjojo A Student's Reference Grammar of Modern Formal Indonesian (Paperback, 2 Rev Ed)
R. Ross MacDonald, Soenjono Darjowidjojo
R847 Discovery Miles 8 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Carscadden Thrift - Selected Projects (Hardcover, None): Ian Ross McDonald Carscadden Thrift - Selected Projects (Hardcover, None)
Ian Ross McDonald
R514 R437 Discovery Miles 4 370 Save R77 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Blue City (Paperback): Ross Macdonald Blue City (Paperback)
Ross Macdonald
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R438 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R51 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Time Flies - Down to the Last Minute (Hardcover): Ross Macdonald, Tara Lazar Time Flies - Down to the Last Minute (Hardcover)
Ross Macdonald, Tara Lazar
R452 R381 Discovery Miles 3 810 Save R71 (16%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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?

Manhunt, May 1953 (Paperback): John Ross MacDonald, Craig Rice, Evan Hunter Manhunt, May 1953 (Paperback)
John Ross MacDonald, Craig Rice, Evan Hunter
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R394 Discovery Miles 3 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Doomsters (Paperback): Ross Macdonald The Doomsters (Paperback)
Ross Macdonald
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R437 R386 Discovery Miles 3 860 Save R51 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

The Archer Files - The Complete Short Stories of Lew Archer, Private Investigator (Paperback): Ross Macdonald The Archer Files - The Complete Short Stories of Lew Archer, Private Investigator (Paperback)
Ross Macdonald; Edited by Tom Nolan
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R517 R404 Discovery Miles 4 040 Save R113 (22%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Goodbye Look (Paperback, 1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed): Ross Macdonald The Goodbye Look (Paperback, 1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed)
Ross Macdonald
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R415 R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Save R48 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

7 Ate 9 (Hardcover): Ross Macdonald 7 Ate 9 (Hardcover)
Ross Macdonald; Tara Lazar
R481 R392 Discovery Miles 3 920 Save R89 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
The Chill (Paperback): Ross Macdonald The Chill (Paperback)
Ross Macdonald
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R302 R247 Discovery Miles 2 470 Save R55 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

The Wycherly Woman (Paperback, 1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed): Ross Macdonald The Wycherly Woman (Paperback, 1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed)
Ross Macdonald
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R465 R411 Discovery Miles 4 110 Save R54 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

The Goodbye Look (Paperback): Ross Macdonald The Goodbye Look (Paperback)
Ross Macdonald
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R298 R243 Discovery Miles 2 430 Save R55 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

Upper Case, The: Trouble In Capital City (Hardcover): Tara Lazar Upper Case, The: Trouble In Capital City (Hardcover)
Tara Lazar; Illustrated by Ross Macdonald 1
R450 R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Save R83 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Ross Macdonald: Four Later Novels - Black Money / The Instant Enemy / The Goodbye Look / The Underground Man (Hardcover): Ross... Ross Macdonald: Four Later Novels - Black Money / The Instant Enemy / The Goodbye Look / The Underground Man (Hardcover)
Ross Macdonald; Edited by Tom Nolan
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R1,005 R887 Discovery Miles 8 870 Save R118 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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."

Black Money (Paperback): Ross Macdonald Black Money (Paperback)
Ross Macdonald
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R303 R248 Discovery Miles 2 480 Save R55 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

'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.

The Galton Case (Paperback): Ross Macdonald The Galton Case (Paperback)
Ross Macdonald
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R298 R243 Discovery Miles 2 430 Save R55 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Twenty years ago, Anthony Galton vanished, along with his streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of the Galton fortune. Now his dying mother wants him found, and Lew Archer is on the case: is Anthony hiding somewhere, happy and eager not to be discovered? But what Archer finds - a headless skeleton, a clever con and a terrified blonde - reveals a game whose stakes are so high that someone is willing to kill. The Galton Case is a wonderfully devious and poetic look at poverty, greed, murder and identity. 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.

The Wheel that Turns the Stars (Paperback): Ross McDonald The Wheel that Turns the Stars (Paperback)
Ross McDonald
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R616 Discovery Miles 6 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
YogaBunnies by YogaBellies - Summer Lovin' Yoga Fun (Paperback): Caelen Ross MacDonald, Cheryl Kennedy MacDonald YogaBunnies by YogaBellies - Summer Lovin' Yoga Fun (Paperback)
Caelen Ross MacDonald, Cheryl Kennedy MacDonald
R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
YogaBunnies - Yoga Fun for Mum and Baby with YogaBellies (Paperback): Caelen Ross MacDonald, Cheryl Kennedy MacDonald YogaBunnies - Yoga Fun for Mum and Baby with YogaBellies (Paperback)
Caelen Ross MacDonald, Cheryl Kennedy MacDonald
R304 Discovery Miles 3 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Life of Failure McFadden (Paperback): Timothy Ross McDonald The Life of Failure McFadden (Paperback)
Timothy Ross McDonald
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R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

The Blue Hammer (Paperback): Ross Macdonald The Blue Hammer (Paperback)
Ross Macdonald
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R462 R408 Discovery Miles 4 080 Save R54 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

The Underground Man (Paperback): Ross Macdonald The Underground Man (Paperback)
Ross Macdonald
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R300 R245 Discovery Miles 2 450 Save R55 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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."

The Instant Enemy (Paperback): Ross Macdonald The Instant Enemy (Paperback)
Ross Macdonald
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R432 R381 Discovery Miles 3 810 Save R51 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 & Clyde kidnap Stephen Hackett, a local millionaire industrialist. Now, Archer is offered a cool 100 Gs for his safe return by his coquettish heiress mother who has her own mysterious ties to this disturbed duo. But the deeper Archer digs, the more he realizes that nothing is as it seems and everything is questionable. Is the boyfriend a psycho ex-con with murder on the brain or a damaged youngster trying to straighten out his twisted family tree? And is the daughter simply his nympho sex-kitten companion in crime or really a fragile kid, trying to block out horrific memories of bad acid and an unspeakable sex crime?

Barbarous Coast (Paperback): Ross Macdonald Barbarous Coast (Paperback)
Ross Macdonald
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R442 R391 Discovery Miles 3 910 Save R51 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 by dirty cops, a bumptious boxer turned silver screen pretty boy and a Hollywood mogul with a dark past, Archer discovers the secret of a grisly murder that just won't stay hidden.Lew Archer navigates through the watery, violent world of wealth and privilege, in this electrifying story of obsession gone mad.

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