The Underground Man
$23.91
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
10 September 2024
Summary
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 above southern California. Meanwhile, Lew Archer has been asked by a desperate mother to find her six-year-old son. Instead, he discovers the boy’s wealthy father, murdered, and buried in a hole in the ground. The mystery will lead Archer to unearth a tragic, years-old history of abandonment, o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241684795 |
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| ISBN-10: | 024168479X |
| Author: | Ross Macdonald |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 10 September 2024 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics – Crime & Espionage |
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I love the Lew Archer books. – James EllroyThe finest series of detective novels ever written by an American. – William Goldman
About The Author
Ross Macdonald
Ross MacDonald’s books include The Underground Man, The Goodbye Look, The Chill and The Galton Case, and other works of hard-boiled Californian crime. MacDonald served as president of the Mystery Writers of America in 1965, received the Silver Dagger in 1964 and the Gold Dagger in 1965 from The British Crime Writers Association, and in 1981, received The Eye, the Lifetime Achievement Award from The Private Eye Writers of America.
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