Ross Macdonald
1) Black money
Author
Series
Lew Archer novels volume 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
When private investigator 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 debts.
Black Money is Ross Macdonald at his finest, baring the skull beneath the suntanned skin of Southern California's
...2) Prop man: from John Wick to Silver linings playbook, from Boardwalk empire to Parks and recreation
Author
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
This exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the art and design of graphic props for popular films and TV shows like Parks and Recreation, John Wick, Silver Linings Playbook, The Knick, and Boardwalk Empire is the perfect gift for movie buffs. In Prop Man, discover the secret history of the books, cards, letters, maps, and legal papers that play central and supporting roles in many of your favorite films and TV shows-from the diary Nicolas Cage's character...
Author
Publisher
Chivers Press
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A crime novel in which a young man, just back from the war, discovers that his father has been killed on a street corner, and decides to solve the case himself, but this means immersing himself in the brutal underworld in which his father moved freely.
Author
Series
Lew Archer novels volume 14
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Author
Series
Lew Archer novels volume 6
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Lew Archer novels volume 12
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
In The Far Side of the Dollar, private investigator Lew Archer is looking for an unstable rich kid who has run away from an exclusive reform school-and into the arms of kidnappers. Why are his desperate parents so loath to give Archer the information he needs to find him? And why do all trails lead to a derelict Hollywood hotel where starlets and sailors once rubbed elbows with two-bit grifters-and where the present clientele includes a brand-new...
13) The blue hammer
Author
Series
Lew Archer novels volume 18
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Hired by Mrs. Samuel Lawrence to find her wandering daughter, Galatea, who had been last seen driving off with small-time gangster Joe Tarantine, P.I. Lew Archer follows a trail of death and mayhem that takes him from the slum alleys of Southern California to the luxury of Palm Springs.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Lew Archer has been hired to locate Phoebe Wycherly by her wealthy father, but first Archer must deal with "the Wycherly woman, Phoebe's mother, an eerily unmaternal blonde who kept too many residences, had too many secrets, and left too many corpses in her wake."--Back cover.
16) The chill
Author
Series
Lew Archer novels volume 11
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
In The Chill a distraught young man hires private investigator Lew 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 of nerve-racking suspense, desperately believable characters, and one of the most intricate plots ever spun by an American crime writer. -- from Amazon....
17) The ivory grin
Author
Series
Publisher
[Chivers]
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
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...
18) The doomsters
Author
Series
Lew Archer novels volume 7
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Hired by Carl Hallman, the desperate-eyed junkie scion of an abscenely wealthy.
19) The Galton case
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
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 son, and a con game whose stakes are so high that someone is still willing to kill for them. Devious and poetic, The Galton Case displays MacDonald...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 264
Publisher
The Library Of America
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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