Ross Macdonald
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Sleeping Beauty plunges private detective Lew Archer into a fascinating and intricate case connected to a disastrous oil spill on the southern California coast. It leads Archer into a load of trouble involving ransom, a lethal dose of Nembutal, the death of a stranger found floating off shore, and three generations of the imposing Lennox family, whose offshore oil platform caused the spill.
The young Lennox heiress—glimpsed for a haunting
...Author
Series
[Lew Archer mystery] volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
p2001.
Language
English
Description
Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshipping holy man whom Sampson once gave his very own mountain; the fading actress with sidelines in astrology and S&M. Now one of Sampson's friends may have arranged his kidnapping. As Lew Archer follows the clues from the canyon sanctuaries of the megarich to jazz joints where you get beaten up between sets, The Moving Target blends sex, greed, and family...
Author
Series
[Lew Archer mystery] volume 17
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
p2001.
Language
English
Description
As a mysterious fire rages through the hills above a privileged town in Southern California, Archer tracks a missing child who may be the pawn in a marital struggle or the victim of a bizarre kidnapping. What he uncovers amid the ashes is murderand a trail of motives as combustible as gasoline. The Underground Man is a detective novel of merciless suspense and tragic depth, with an unfaltering insight into the moral ambiguities at the heart...
Author
Series
[Lew Archer mystery] volume 2
Pub. Date
uuuu
Language
English
Description
A well-dressed woman engages Archer's services, and soon he is digging up secrets in her oil-rich hometown.
6) Black money
Author
Series
Lew Archer novel volume 14
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
c1993.
Language
English
Description
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.
7) Harper
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
Hard-boiled private investigator Lew Harper is hired to locate a missing millionaire.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Has Tom Hillman run away from his exclusive reform school, or has he been kidnapped? Are his wealthy parents protecting him or their own guilty secrets? And why does every clue lead Lew Archer to an abandoned Hollywood hotel, where starlets and sailors once rubbed shoulders with grifters--and where the present clientele includes a brand-new corpse.
10) The dark tunnel
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Doctor Robert Branch is a university professor, not a secret agent. But his best friend is dead and Branch knows that it can't have been suicide. He is also certain that the murder has been arranged by a Nazi espionage group operating on campus. The only trouble is, no one will believe him. Branch knows that the Nazis will have him eliminated as soon as it is convenient. He's even narrowed his choice of executioner down to three: a psychotic homosexual,...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
From humble beginnings sketching Iowa's cornfields and rolling hills as a child, painter Grant Wood (1891-1942) became the father of Regionalism-- an artistic movement that celebrated the real-life surroundings of the people. [This] is a picture-book biography that explores the birth of the famous painting, the movement that made it possible, and the artist who created it all.
12) The chill
Author
Series
[Lew Archer mystery] volume 12
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
p1996.
Language
English
Description
Lew Archer knows he shouldn't have taken the case, but Alex Kincaid seemed so desperate. Kincaid's loving new bride Dolly has just inexplicably walked out on him, leaving Kincaid more than a little fearful for her sanity and her safety. So Archer reluctantly agreed to help Kincaid find his wife. But what he finds instead is enough to send a chill down anyone's spine—a new fresh corpse and evidence linking Dolly not only to this murder but to a series...
13) Bye-bye, crib
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
A big boy and his best stuffed friend seek the courage to move to a gigantic new bed.
15) The blue hammer
Author
Series
Lew Archer novel volume 19
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1976.
Language
English
Description
The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only 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 Detective Lew 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 left...