Synopses & Reviews
Review
"The American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by Macdonald." The New York Times Book Review
Review
"Another of Mr. Macdonald's somber celebrations of the evil that lurks in men's souls...as elaborately designed as the plot of any three-volume Victorian novel." The Christian Science Monitor
Review
"This 1969 Lew Archer outing finds the PI investigating a burglary of a house belonging to a wealthy family. As Archer does his job, however, it seems that the robbery is the least of these people's troubles." Library Journal
Synopsis
The private eye had died by a bullet to his head, and Archer knew it could just as easily have been him. The case had begun with a stolen gold box, but now it was a search under the hot California sun for a missing rich boy, a hobo, and a gun that had been used for two murders fifteen years apart. In the land of earthquakes and other natural disasters, the lives of some lowlifes and newly rich have come crashing together, and for Lew Archer the only way out now is to unravel the mystery that started so many years, and dead bodies, ago.
About the Author
Ross Macdonald died in 1983.