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Am Morgen nach der Hochzeitsnacht verschwindet Alex Kincaids junge, hübsche Frau Dolly. Ist sie vor ihm geflohen? Oder vor dem bärtigen Chuck Begley, der als Letzter mit ihr gesprochen hat? Kincaid beauftragt Privatdetektiv Lew Archer, sie wiederzufinden. Das ist zwar einfacher als erwartet, doch dann beginnen erst die Schwierigkeiten. Kaum hat Archer Dolly Kincaid aufgespürt, wird er in zwei Morde verstrickt, von denen der eine 20 Jahre her i...

Henry is a monster whose body parts tend to fall off but his right hand helps keep everything together and is his best friendNuntil Henry becomes lazy and his hand decides to leave. A charming tale of friendship, forgiveness, and loyalty. Full color.

Als dem kalifornischen Kupfermagnaten Jack Biemeyer und seiner Frau ein Gemälde gestohlen wird, wenden sie sich an niemand Geringeren als Lew Archer. Ein Bravourstück des Privatdetektivs: Lew Archer geht über dreißig Jahre in die Vergangenheit zurück, um seinen schwierigsten Fall zu lösen.

Anfangs machen fast alle Aufträge an Lew Archer einen relativ simplen Eindruck. So scheint auch diesmal Routine angesagt, abgesehen davon, daß sich der Privatdetektiv über das Verbot, die zentrale Person zu kontaktieren, hinwegsetzen muß. Nach dem ersten Mord läuft dann der Fall gänzlich aus dem Ruder.

Während ein Waldbrand die Küste Kaliforniens bedroht, sucht Detektiv Lew Archer verzweifelt nach dem kleinen Ronny Broadhurst. Geht es um Lösegeld oder um Erpressung in einem Ehekrieg? Erst müssen alte Leichen ausgegraben werden, bevor es Archer gelingt, das ganze Ausmaß des Familiendramas zu enthüllen. Ein Krimiklassiker in hochgelobter Neuübersetzung, mit einem Nachwort von Donna Leon.

The three novels collected in this second volume in the Library of America Ross Macdonald edition represent for many readers the summit of American crime writing. They remain thrilling for their searing psychological truth-telling, daring flights of narrative invention, and their keenly observed picture of the manners and morals of a particular time and place (Southern California in the early 1960s). Each reflects Macdonald's enduring concern ...

Als im mondänen Tennisclub von Montevista ein Eindringling auftaucht, verlässt Ginny Fablon für ihn den Verlobten. Für Detektiv Archer ein klarer Fall von enttäuschter Liebe - bis Verbindungen auftauchen zu einem Selbstmord und Spielschulden. >Schwarzgeld< ist eine Abrechnung mit dem amerikanischen Traum. Nichts will man in dem Tennisclub, wo die Haut so weiß sein muss wie die Kleidung, mit dunklen Machenschaften zu tun haben - und doch kommt ...

The beautiful, high-diving blonde had Hollywood dreams and stars in her eyes but now she seems to have disappeared without a trace. Hired by her hotheaded husband and her rummy "uncle, ” Lew Archer sniffs around Malibu and finds the stink of blackmail, blood-money, and murder on every pricey silk shirt. Beset by dirty cops, a bumptious boxer turned silver screen pretty boy and a Hollywood mogul with a dark past, Archer discovers the secret of ...

The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Detective Lew Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art.Finding a purloined portrait of a leggy blonde was supposed to be an easy paycheck for Archer, but that was before the bodies began piling up. Suddenly, Archer find himself smack in the middle of a decades-long mystery of a brilliant artist who walked into the desert and simply disappeared. He l...

It was a long way from the million-dollar Foothill Club to Pelly Street, where grudges were settled in blood and Spanish and a stolen diamond ring landed a girl in jail. Defense lawyer Bill Gunnarson was making the trip--fast. He already knew a kidnapping at the club was tied to the girl's hot rock, and he suspected that a missing Hollywood starlet was the key to a busy crime ring. But while Gunnarson made his way through a storm of deception,...

Somebody in Pacific Point is guilty of a kidnapping, but what probation officer Howard Cross wants to find most is innocence: in an ex-war hero who has taken a tough manslaughter rap, in a wealthy woman with a heart full of secrets, and in a blue-eyed beauty who has lost her way. The trouble is that the abduction has already turned to murder, and the more Cross pries into the case the further he slips into a pool of violence and evil. Somewher...

Silken skin pale against dark hair, red lips provocatively smiling at him-that's how Lieutenant Bret Taylor remembered Lorraine. He was drunk when he married her, stone cold sober when he found her dead. Out on the sunlit streets of L.A. walked the man-her lover, her killer-who had been with her that fatal night. Taylor intended to find him. And when he did, the gun in his pocket would provide the quickest kind of justice. But first Taylor had...

He was a son who hadn't known his father very well. It was a town shaken by a grisly murder-his father's murder. Johnny Weatherly was home from a war and wandering. When he found out that his father had been assassinated on a street corner and that his father's seductive young wife had inherited a fortune, he started knocking on doors. The doors came open, and Johnny stepped into a world of gamblers, whores, drug-dealers, and blackmailers, a p...

Lew Archer is hired to retrieve a stolen canvas reputed to be the work of Richard Chantry, who vanished in 1950 from his home. As he pursues the Chantry portrait, and the larger mystery of Richard Chantry, Archer himself is shaken as never before.

Lew Archer is hired to retrieve a stolen canvas reputed to be the work of Richard Chantry, who vanished in 1950 from his home. As he pursues the Chantry portrait, and the larger mystery of Richard Chantry, Archer himself is shaken as never before.

Encuadernación: RústicaLa familia del senador Hallman es ilustre, tiene poder político y es obscenamente rica. Pero parece víctima de alguna maldición, porque las muertes se suceden. Hay quien piensa incluso en la presencia de seres malignos del más allá, pero Lew Archer, al que Carl Hallman, el hijo del senador, contrata para investigar las muertes de sus padres, está convencido de que hay un culpable de carne y hueso. A través de sus indagac...

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.

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.

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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