Ross Macdonald
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 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.
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 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
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Jack's grandfather is always grumpy, and a bit scary, too, but during a visit to the country house where "Grumpy Grandpa" lives with the brave Aunt Ellie and Uncle Wilbur, Jack learns that his grandfather was once very different.
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