The Underground Man: A Lew Archer Novel: 16 - Brossura

Macdonald, Ross

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0679768084 ISBN 13: 9780679768081

Casa editrice: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1996

Riassunto

While a mysterious fire ravages an affluent community in Southern California, Lew Archer searches for a missing child and discovers a secret history of wayward parents, wounded offspring, and murder. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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Recensione:

"A more serious and complex writer than Chandler and Hammett ever were."- Eudora Welty

"Ross Macdonald is an important American novelist!"- San Francisco Chronicle

"I should like to venture that Ross Macdonald is a better novelist than either... Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler."-  Anthony Boucher, The New York Times Book Review

L'autore:

Ross Macdonald's real name was Kenneth Millar.  Born near San Francisco in 1915 and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Millar returned to the U.S. as a young man and published his first novel in 1944.  He served as the President of the Mystery Writers of America and was awarded their Grand Master Award, as well as the Mystery Writers of Great Britain's Silver Dagger Award.  He died in 1983.

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• Editore: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679768084
• ISBN 13: 9780679768081
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288