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Macdonald Ross

The Guilty Ones

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Lew Archer didn't like his client, J. Reginald Harlan, M.A. Of course Archer generally didn't like people whose names started with a single syllable. Harlan hired Lew to find his sister. A respectable school mistress that has run off with a bohemian artist type. But he finds more than what he expected when he has a corpse literally dumped on him!

Lew Archer didn't like his client, J. Reginald Harlan, M.A. Of course Archer generally didn't like people whose names started with a single syllable. Harlan hired Lew to find his sister. A respectable school mistress that has run off with a bohemian artist type. But he finds more than what he expected when he has a corpse literally dumped on him!

The Moving Target

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Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now one of Sampson's friends may have arranged his kidnapping.

As Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the megarich to jazz joints where you get beaten up between sets, The Moving Target blends sex, greed, and family hatred into an explosively readable crime novel.
The Imaginary Blonde

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How do you pin a murder on a woman who doesn't exist?
Lew Archer was in a dismal mood when he checked into a sleepy motel. He had just lost the man he was trailing and then got into a crazy highway chase with a Cadillac. Now he just wanted to get some sleep. But his thoughts of sleep ended when a screaming brunette woke him with her screams and a hand covered in blood. It looked like a murder, but where was the victim? And Lew Archer only had one suspect―an imaginary blonde that nobody seems to have seen.
How do you pin a murder on a woman who doesn't exist?
Lew Archer was in a dismal mood when he checked into a sleepy motel. He had just lost the man he was trailing and then got into a crazy highway chase with a Cadillac. Now he just wanted to get some sleep. But his thoughts of sleep ended when a screaming brunette woke him with her screams and a hand covered in blood. It looked like a murder, but where was the victim? And Lew Archer only had one suspect―an imaginary blonde that nobody seems to have seen.
The Way Some People Die (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

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In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Archer's hand and asks him to find her wandering daughter, Galatea. Described as ‘crazy for men’ and without discrimination, she was last seen driving off with small-time gangster Joe Tarantine, a hophead hood with a rep for violence. Archer traces the hidden trail from San Francisco slum alleys to the luxury of Palm Springs, traveling through an urban wilderness of drugs and viciousness. As the bodies begin to pile up, he finds that even angel faces can mask the blackest of hearts.Filled with dope, delinquents and murder, this is classic Macdonald and one of his very best in the Lew Archer series.
The Underground Man (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

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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 bizarre kidnapping.  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 and tragic 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 Hammet and 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 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.
Black Money (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

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When 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.
Next time someone who doesn't read mysteries asks where they should start, point them toward Ross Macdonald. Luckily, Vintage/Black Lizard is reprinting several of Macdonald's classic Lew Archer novels in handsome new quality paperback versions. If Black Money (or the other two books in the current series, The Drowning Pool and The Chill) don't have them panting for more, they're probably hopeless cases.

Macdonald Ross News




Death rig 'rusting'
The Sun - Aug 16, 2010
Death rig 'rusting' Death rig 'rusting'Lewis MacDonald, of Alness, Easter Ross, hit a crossbeam after falling from the Ocean Princess platform into the sea at Invergordon Harbour. and more »

David Hasselhoff Proves to Be a Perfect Target in Comedy Central Roast
Associated Content - Aug 17, 2010
While the Hoff was an ideal roast target, Saget's roast featured truly gut-busting lines from the likes of Cloris Leachman, Norm MacDonald, Susie Essman, and more »

Field is set for Gold Cup, Saucer final
Charlottetown, The Guardian - Aug 17, 2010
Field is set for Gold Cup, Saucer final Winning horse owned by Boyd MacDonald Produce Ltd. Crapaud, Daniel Ross, Belfast. Race 10 - Clay Mater (M. Stevenson) 5.50 3.50 2.20 Langley Road (L.

Danvers people
The Salem News - Aug 17, 2010
Marissa Ross and Michael Caruso were named to the dean's list for the spring semester at Bentley University. Samantha Brennan, Michael Decoulos, and more »

Sly Stallone has 'The Expendables' EXPLODING on the big screen
Philly2Philly.com - Aug 14, 2010
Sly Stallone has 'The Expendables' EXPLODING on the big screenHe has indeed made some clunkers along the way (remember the Saturday Night Live skit with Norm MacDonald complaining that he was saved in a car accident by and more »