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Black Money (Crime Masterworks)

Black Money (Crime Masterworks)

by RossMacdonald (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

    $5.76
Synopsis

When Lew Archer is hired to find out the truth about a suspiciously suave Frenchman who has run off with his client's girlfriend, it looks like a simple enough case. But things start to look very different when Archer connects the elusive foreigner to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts. This is Ross Macdonald at his finest, revealing the skull beneath the sun-kissed skin of Southern California.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 304
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 17 Oct 2002
ISBN 10: 0752851780
ISBN 13: 9780752851785
Book Overview: 'A beautiful job...rich in plot and character...surprising and shocking' New York Times Book Reviw 'A great writer exploring psychopathology in Southern California...a crafter of complex, emotionally evocative plots' Jonathan Kellerman 'It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he taught us how to read, and how to think about life' Robert B. Parker 'However much Lew Arche is the mature and distant Macdonald, and however much he remains the classical American private eye...he is also that figure of myth, the Great Detective' H.R.F. Keating 'Macdonald continued the tradition established by Chandler but he shaped and moulded it in ways that are uniquely his own' Waterstones Guide to Crime Fiction

Author Bio
Ross Macdonald (1915-1983) was the pseudonym of Kenneth Millar who was born in California and educated in Canada and at the University of Michigan, where he also taught. In 1938 he married the writer Margaret Millar. He served in the United States Naval Reserve from 1944 to 1946. He published his first novel, The Dark Tunnel, in 1944 and his first Lew Archer story, The Moving Target, in 1949. He became a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America in 1973.