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    The Drowning Pool

    Ross Macdonald

    A gripping tale of adultery and murder served hard-boiled

    When Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer's office with a poison pen letter intended for…

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    The Underground Man

    Ross Macdonald

    A hardboiled story of abduction and murder in the Los Angeles hills

    Private Detective Lew Archer doesn't believe in coincidences...

    A forest fire has mysteriously broken out in the hills…

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    The Zebra-Striped Hearse

    Ross Macdonald

    Lew Archer, a private detective, is hired to investigate the background of a wealthy young woman’s suitor, who seems to be a fortune hunter.

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    Ross Macdonald

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    Private eye Lew Archer bridged the gap falling between Hammett's Sam Spade, Chandler's Philip Marlowe and Rober B. Parker's Spenser. Knowing Macdonald is essential to understanding the modern P.I. novel.

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    Way Some People Die, the

    Ross MacDonald

    The trouble with this case is that Lew Archer has more clients than normal. The first is a worried lady who wants to find her daughter. Then a very nasty…

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    A Ross Macdonald Companion

    Robert L. Gale

    Ross Macdonald is best known as the creator of private detective Lew Archer and as the author of such works as The Drowning Pool (1950) and The Underground Man (1971).

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    Ross MacDonald: A Biography

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    This biography illuminates the public life and the hidden personal dramas behind the imaginative work of one of the greatest writers of detective fiction, Ross MacDonald. The author draws on…

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    The Chill

    Ross Macdonald

    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…

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    Old Macdonald Had a Phone

    Jeanne Willis

    First published in Great Britain in 2021 by Andersen Press Ltd.

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    The Underground Man

    Ross Macdonald

    When a chance encounter makes him a witness to the abduction of a child, private detective Lew Archer can’t help but be drawn into the case, pursuing a trail that…

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    The Ross Macdonald Collection: A Library of America Boxed Set

    A treasure chest of modern mystery: eleven classic Lew Archer novels in a definitive Library of America boxed set

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    It’s All One Case: The Illustrated Ross Macdonald Archives

    Jerome Charyn,Paul Nelson,Kevin Avery

    This is a prose series of unpublished interviews with, and a visual retrospective of, the seminal mid- to late-20th century literary crime writer.

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    The Three Roads

    Ross MacDonald

    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…

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    The Underground Man

    Ross MacDonald

    While a mysterious fire ravages an affluent community in Southern California, Lew Archer searches for a missing child and discovers a secret history of wayward parents, wounded offspring, and murder.

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    Black Money

    Ross Macdonald

    A sun-drenched California town. A beautiful young woman who has jilted her fiance to take up with a mysterious Frenchman. A poor little rich boy who wants her back. Enter…

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    The Blue Hammer

    Ross Macdonald

    The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Detective Lew Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art.

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    The Underground Man: A Lew Archer Novel

    Ross Macdonald

    While a mysterious fire ravages an affluent community in Southern California, Lew Archer searches for a missing child and discovers a secret history of wayward parents, wounded offspring, and murder.

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    The Chill (Special Edition)

    Ross Macdonald,Ross Macdonald

    In a small college town south of Los Angeles, Lew Archer investigates three murders, two in the past, one in the present.

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    The Zebra-Striped Hearse

    Ross MacDonald

    Part of the BLACK DAGGER CRIME series, the first U.K. hardcover edition of a novel about a deception. An arrogant artist is all set to defraud a rich heiress before…

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    The Blue Hammer: A Lew Archer Novel

    Ross MacDonald

    Lew Archer is hired to retrieve a stolen canvas reputed to be the work of Richard Chantry, who vanished in 1950 from his home. As he pursues the Chantry portrait…

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    The Far Side of the Dollar

    Ross MacDonald

    Has Tom Hillman run away from his exclusive reform school, or has he been kidnapped? Are his wealthy parents protecting him or their own guilty secrets? And why does every…

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    The Barbarous Coast

    Ross MacDonald

    Ross Macdonald is one of the Big Three in American hard-boiled detective fiction, along with Chandler and Hammett. In The Barbarous Coast, tough, thoughtful private eye Lew Archer pursues a…

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    Sleeping Beauty

    Ross MacDonald

    Not since the novels of Nathaniel West has the theme of American innocence grinding to a stop at the polluted waters of the Pacific so consistently reverberated through a body…

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    The Drowning Pool

    Ross MacDonald

    Out of print since 1988, here is a classic Lew Archer thriller by Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Ross Macdonald. When an iron-willed matriarch with an oil field in…

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    The Zebra-Striped Hearse Lib/E

    Ross MacDonald

    Part of the BLACK DAGGER CRIME series, the first U.K. hardcover edition of a novel about a deception. An arrogant artist is all set to defraud a rich heiress before…

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    The Drowning Pool Lib/E

    Ross MacDonald

    Out of print since 1988, here is a classic Lew Archer thriller by Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Ross Macdonald. When an iron-willed matriarch with an oil field in…

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    The Goodbye Look

    Ross Macdonald

    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…

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    Henry’s Hand

    Ross MacDonald

    Henry trouble keeping track of his body parts–everything from his ears to one of his legs can fall off–but with help from Hand, his favorite body part, Henry keeps himself…

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    The Wycherly Woman

    Ross Macdonald

    Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her. But before he could locate the Wycherly girl, Archer had to reckon with the Wycherly…

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    The Moving Target

    Ross Macdonald

    Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company, from the sun-worshiping holy man to the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now, one of Sampson’s friends…

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    Find a Victim: A Lew Archer Novel

    Ross Macdonald

    When Lew Archer stops for a hitchhiker and finds a young man dying of a gunshot wound, he knows he has stumbled into a mess. In a matter of hours…

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    The Instant Enemy

    Ross Macdonald

    A Lew Archer crime novel, previously published in the UK over twenty years ago. Archer is weary and frustrated, his latest case involves two murders and a family secret which…

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    The Far Side of the Dollar

    Ross Macdonald

    Has Tom Hillman run away from his exclusive reform school, or has he been kidnapped? Are his wealthy parents protecting him or their own guilty secrets? And why does every…

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    The Drowning Pool

    Ross Macdonald

    Out of print since 1988, here is a classic Lew Archer thriller by Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Ross Macdonald. When an iron-willed matriarch with an oil field in…

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    The Barbarous Coast

    Ross Macdonald

    A condensed version … appeared in Cosmopolitan under the title The dying animal –T.p. verso.

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    Black Money

    Ross MacDonald

    ‘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…

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    The Galton Case: A Lew Archer Novel

    Ross Macdonald

    Anthony Galton disappeared almost 20 years ago. Now his aging–and very rich–mother has hired Lew Archer to bring him back. What turns up is a headless skeleton, a suspicious heir…

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    The Doomsters

    Ross Macdonald

    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.

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    Meet Me at the Morgue

    Ross Macdonald

    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…

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    The Ferguson Affair

    Ross Macdonald

    It was a long way from the million-dollar Foothill Club to Pelly Street, where grudges were settled in blood and Spanish and a stolen diamond ring landed a girl in…

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    The Goodbye Look

    Ross Macdonald

    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…

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    The Galton Case

    Ross Macdonald

    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…

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    Find a Victim: A Lew Archer Novel

    Ross MacDonald

    When Lew Archer stops for a hitchhiker and finds a young man dying of a gunshot wound, he knows he has stumbled into a mess. In a matter of hours…

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    Find a Victim

    Ross MacDonald

    When Lew Archer stops for a hitchhiker and finds a young man dying of a gunshot wound, he knows he has stumbled into a mess. In a matter of hours…

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    Meet Me at the Morgue

    Ross MacDonald

    Meet Me at the Morgue is the story of a kidnapping that led to four murders. In his search for the killer, Howard Cross digs deep into the Los Angeles…

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    The Underground Man Lib/E

    Ross MacDonald

    While a mysterious fire ravages an affluent community in Southern California, Lew Archer searches for a missing child and discovers a secret history of wayward parents, wounded offspring, and murder.

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    The Moving Target Lib/E

    Ross MacDonald

    Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company, from the sun-worshiping holy man to the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now, one of Sampsons friends…

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    The Dark Tunnel Lib/E

    Ross MacDonald

    When university professor Robert Branch learns of the death of his best friend, he knows that it couldn’t have been suicide. The murder was arranged by a Nazi espionage group…

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