Black Money (Lew Archer Series #13)

by Ross Macdonald

Overview

When Lew Archer is hired to get the goods on the suspiciously suave Frenchman who's run off with his client's girlfriend, it looks like a simple case of alienated affections. Things look different when the mysterious foreigner turns out to be connected to a seven-year-old suicide and a mountain of gambling debts. Black Money is Ross Macdonald at his finest, baring the skull beneath the untanned skin of Southern California's high society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679768104
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/03/1996
Series:	Lew Archer Series , #13
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	317,228
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

Ross Macdonald's real name was Kenneth Millar. Born near San Francisco in 1915 and raised in Ontario, Canada, 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 Gold Dagger Award. He died in 1983.

What People are Saying About This

Robert B. Parker

It was not just that Ross MacDonald taught us how to write; he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe in some small but mattering way, how to live.
—(Robert B. Parker)

Editorial Reviews

Published in 1965, 1963, and 1950, respectively, this trio feature MacDonald's hard-boiled private detective Lew Archer. The plots involve murder, deceit, blackmail, sex, and all those other goodies that make for great crime stories.

Library Journal

A wealthy young man hires private eye Lew Archer to uncover a mystery man's secrets and protect a friend from a bad marriage. Archer's investigation puts him on the trail of money acquired through tax evasion—"black money." Grover Gardner's voice is clear and tough, a natural for the hard-boiled first-person narrative. Macdonald’s story—involving gambling debts, murder, sex, and blackmail—is as satisfyingly gritty as one expects, including the twisted family histories of wealthy Californians in the ‘60s. Gardner's narration makes it all lively and fresh, rather than a nostalgic relic. J.A.S. 2010 Audies Finalist © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

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