Author: Ross Macdonald Year: 1952 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Fiction, Crime, Noir, Detective, Hard boiled
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ISBNs: 9780307278999 0307278999 |
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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 number-runners from Detroit, gorgeous triple-crossing molls, and a golden-boy shipping heir who's gone mysteriously missing.
This book is part of the "Lew Archer" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "The Archer Files" First published in 2007 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Blue Hammer" First published in 1976 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Underground Man" First published in 1971 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Goodbye Look" First published in 1969 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Instant Enemy" First published in 1968 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Black Money" First published in 1966 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Chill" First published in 1963 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Wycherly Woman" First published in 1961 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Galton Case" First published in 1959 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Doomsters" First published in 1958 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Barbarous Coast" First published in 1956 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Name is Archer" First published in 1955 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Find a Victim" First published in 1954 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Drowning Pool" First published in 1950 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Moving Target" First published in 1949 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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