Best Ross Macdonald Novels - April 2024

Ross Macdonald: Three Novels of the Early 1960s (LOA #279): The Zebra-Striped Hearse / The Chill / The Far Side of the Dollar (Library of America Ross Macdonald Edition)

The three novels collected in this second volume in the Library of America Ross Macdonald edition represent for many readers the summit of American crime writing. They remain thrilling for their searing psychological truth-telling, daring flights of narrative invention, and their keenly observed picture of the manners and morals of a particular time and place (Southern California in the early 1960s). Each reflects Macdonald’s enduring concern with the hidden crimes and agonizing dysfunctions that haunt families from one generation to the next. In The Zebra-Striped Hearse, a father’s a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1598534793
• ASIN: 1598534793
• ISBN: 1598534793
• Brand: Library of America
• Manufacturer: Library of America

Ross Macdonald: Four Novels of the 1950s (LOA #264): The Way Some People Die / The Barbarous Coast / The Doomsters / The Galton Case (Library of America Ross Macdonald Edition)

At last, the brilliant successor to Hammett and Chandler in a definitive collector’s edition: Revered by such contemporary masters as Sue Grafton, George Pelecanos, and James Ellroy, Ross Macdonald (the pseudonym of Kenneth Millar) brought to the crime novel new levels of social realism and psychological depth, while honing a unique gift for intricately involving mystery narratives. For his centennial year, The Library of America inaugurates its Macdonald edition with four novels from the 1950s, all featuring his incomparable protagonist, private investigator Lew Archer. Here are The Way Som... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1598533762
• ASIN: 1598533762
• ISBN: 1598533762
• Brand: Library of America
• Manufacturer: Library of America

Ross Macdonald: Four Later Novels (LOA #295): Black Money / The Instant Enemy / The Goodbye Look / The Underground Man (Library of America Ross Macdonald Edition)

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 t... [Read More]

• ASIN: 159853534X
• ASIN: 159853534X
• ISBN: 159853534X
• Brand: LIBRARY OF AMER
• Manufacturer: Library of America

The Chill

• ASIN: 0679768076
• ASIN: 0679768076
• ISBN: 0679768076
• Brand: MacDonald, Ross
• Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

The Galton Case (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

• ASIN: 0679768645
• ASIN: 0679768645
• ISBN: 0679768645
• Brand: MacDonald, Ross
• Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

The Moving Target (Lew Archer Series Book 1)

• ASIN: B004DEPH7U
• ASIN: B004DEPH7U
• Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

The Archer Files: The Complete Short Stories of Lew Archer, Private Investigator (Lew Archer Series)

No matter what cases private eye Lew Archer takes on—a burglary, a runaway, or a disappeared person—the trail always leads to tangled family secrets and murder. Widely considered the heir to Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, Archer dug up secrets and bodies in and around Los Angeles.  Here, The Archer Files collects all the Lew Archer short stories ever published, along with thirteen unpublished “case notes” and a fascinating biographical profile of Archer by Edgar Award finalist Tom Nolan. Ross Macdonald’s signature staccato prose is the real star throughout this collection, which is b... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1101910127
• ASIN: 1101910127
• ISBN: 1101910127
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

The Wycherly Woman (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)

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.

• ASIN: 0375701443
• ASIN: 0375701443
• ISBN: 0375701443
• Brand: MacDonald, Ross
• Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

The Long Goodbye

Crime fiction master Raymond Chandler's sixth novel featuring Philip Marlowe, the "quintessential urban private eye" (Los Angeles Times). In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. And now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.

• ASIN: 0394757688
• ASIN: 0394757688
• ISBN: 9780394757681
• Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

The Blue Hammer (Lew Archer Series Book 18)

• ASIN: B004AM5QZI
• ASIN: B004AM5QZI
• Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Find a Victim: A Lew Archer Novel (Lew Archer Novels (Audio))

A hitchhiker stumbles to his knees on the side of a dark road. Private detective Lew Archer stops his car. When he gets to the young man, Archer realizes that he has stumbled into a mess--for the hitchhiker is dying of a gunshot wound. In a matter of hours, Archer is suspected by the law, hired by a target-shooting trucking magnate, and propositioned by an adulterer's wife. A hijacked truck full of liquor and an evidence box full of marijuana, $20,000 from a big-time bank heist by a small-time crook, corruption, adultery, incest, prodigal daughters and abused wives, and a band of sinners on th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1441718044
• ASIN: 1441718044
• ISBN: 1441718044
• Manufacturer: Blackstone Audiobooks

Ross MacDonald : A Biography

• ASIN: 0684812177
• ASIN: 0684812177
• ISBN: 0684812177
• Manufacturer: Scribner

The Goodbye Look (Lew Archer Series Book 15)

• ASIN: B004CFAZV8
• ASIN: B004CFAZV8
• Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

The Far Side of the Dollar (Lew Archer Series Book 12)

• ASIN: B004FYZKAW
• ASIN: B004FYZKAW
• Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

The Ivory Grin: A Lew Archer Novel (Lew Archer Novels (Audio))

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 discovers a web of deceit and intrigue, with crazed numbers runners from Detroit, gorgeous triple-crossing molls, and a golden-boy shipping heir wh... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1433278685
• ASIN: 1433278685
• ISBN: 1433278685
• Brand: Brand: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
• Manufacturer: Blackstone Audio Inc

The Ross Macdonald Collection: 11 Classic Lew Archer Novels : A Library of America Boxed Set

9781598535525

• UPC: 55960587

Find a Victim : A Lew Archer Novel

Lew Archer becomes involved with a beautiful blonde and a case of murder after he discovers a man dying of a bullet wound along a southern California

• UPC: 1202768
• Rating: 4.0

The Drowning Pool

Lew Archer, a private detective, is hired by Maude Slocum to investigate a poison pen letter, but when Archer arrives he discovers her mother-in-law drowned in the family

• UPC: 379397
• Rating: 4.25

The Greek Myths : (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

The gold standard in Greek mythology, in a dazzling graphic deluxe edition with a new introduction by the bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians

• UPC: 19405978
• Rating: 3.857

The Underground Man : A Lew Archer Novel

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

• UPC: 379399
• Rating: 4.5

George MacDonald: The Best Works - eBook

This ebook compiles George MacDonald's greatest writings, including novels, novellas, short stories and sermons such as "Phantastes", "The Princess and the Goblin", "Unspoken Sermons", "The Light Princess" and "The Golden Key". This edition has been

• UPC: 220746173

The Moving Target

The first book in Ross Macdonald's acclaimed Lew Archer series introduces the detective who redefined the role of the American private eye and gave the crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity only hinted

• UPC: 1899896
• Rating: 3.917

The Three Roads

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 he found her dead. Out on

• UPC: 13725667
• Rating: 5.0

Ross Macdonald: Three Novels of the Early 1960s (LOA #279) : The Zebra-Striped Hearse / The Chill / The Far Side of the Dollar

The three novels collected in this second volume in the Library of America Ross Macdonald edition represent for many readers the summit of American crime writing. They remain thrilling for their searing psychological truth-telling, daring

• UPC: 48584664

Ross Macdonald: Four Novels of the 1950s (LOA #264) : The Way Some People Die / The Barbarous Coast / The Doomsters / The Galton Case

Collects four mystery stories starring California private investigator Lew Archer, as well as a selection of the author's other

• UPC: 43376863