The Three Roads
$36.00
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2011
Summary
A classic mystery from one of the genre’s most revered masters about a man who comes home from war to find his wife murdered and the grueling journey he takes to seek revenge.
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 the sunlit streets of L.A. walked the man—her lover, her killer—who had been with her that fatal night…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780307740762 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0307740765 |
| Author: | Ross Macdonald |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2011 |
| Weight: | 255g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 133mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Vintage Crime/Black Lizard |
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Ross Macdonald’s real name was Kenneth Millar. Born near San Francisco in 1915 and raised in Ontario, Millar returned to the U.S. as a young man and published his first novel in 1944. He served as the president of the Mystery Writers of America and was awarded their Grand Master Award as well as the Mystery Writers of Great Britain’s Gold Dagger Award. He died in 1983.
About The Author
Ross Macdonald
The American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald. -New York Times Book Review
Macdonald should not be limited in audience to connoisseurs of mystery fiction. He is one of a handful of writers in the genre whose worth and quality surpass the limitations of the form. -Los Angeles Times
Most mystery writers merely write about crime. Ross Macdonald writes about sin. -The Atlantic
Without in the least abating my admiration for Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, I should like to venture the heretical suggestion that Ross Macdonald is a better novelist than either of them. -Anthony Boucher
Macdonald carried form and style about as far as they would go, writing classic family tragedies in the guise of private detective mysteries. -The Guardian (London)
Ross Macdonald gives to the detective story that accent of class that the late Raymond Chandler did. -Chicago Tribune
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