The Goodbye Look - Couverture souple

Macdonald, Ross

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0375708650 ISBN 13 : 9780375708657

Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2000

Synopsis

In The Goodbye Look, Lew Archer is hired to investigate a burglary at the mission-style mansion of Irene and Larry Chalmers. The prime suspect, their son Nick, has a talent for disappearing, and the Chalmerses are a family with money and memories to burn. As Archer zeros in on Nick, he discovers a troubled blonde, a stash of wartime letters, a mysterious hobo. Then a stiff turns up in a car on an empty beach. And Nick turns up with a Colt .45. In The Goodbye Look, Ross Macdonald delves into the world of the rich and the troubled and reveals that the past has a deadly way of catching up to the present.

If any writer can be said to have inherited the mantle of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, it is Ross Macdonald. Between the late 1940s and his death in 1983, he gave the American crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity that his pre-decessors had only hinted at. And in the character of Lew Archer, Macdonald redefined the private eye as a roving conscience who walks the treacherous frontier between criminal guilt and human sin.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ross Macdonald died in 1983.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0375708650
• ISBN 13: 9780375708657
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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• Personne responsable: non disponible