Lew Archer novels
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The moving target , Lew Archer novels volume 1
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The drowning pool , Lew Archer novels volume 2
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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed.
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English
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Hired by Mrs. Samuel Lawrence to find her wandering daughter, Galatea, who had been last seen driving off with small-time gangster Joe Tarantine, P.I. Lew Archer follows a trail of death and mayhem that takes him from the slum alleys of Southern California to the luxury of Palm Springs.
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Lew Archer novels volume 4
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2007, ©1952
Edition
1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed.
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English
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English
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When Lew Archer stops for a hitchhiker and finds a young man dying of a gunshot wound, he knows he has stumbled into a mess. In a matter of hours he is suspected by the law, hired by a target-shooting trucking magnate, and chasing a hijacked load of hooch and a band of sinners on the loose.
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Lew Archer novels volume 6
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English
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"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 a grisly...
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Lew Archer novels volume 7
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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2007, ©1958
Edition
1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed.
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English
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed.
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English
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Almost twenty years have passed since Anthony Galton disappeared, along with a suspiciously streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of his family's fortune. Now Anthony's mother wants him back and has hired Lew Archer to find him. What turns up is a headless skeleton, a boy who claims to be Galton's son, and a con game whose stakes are so high that someone is still willing to kill for them. Devious and poetic, The Galton Case displays MacDonald...
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The Wycherly woman , Lew Archer novels volume 9
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Lew Archer novels volume 10
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English
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Strictly speaking, Lew Archer is only supposed to dig up the dirt on a rich man's suspicious soon-to-be son-in-law. But in no time at all the private eye is following a trail of corpses from the citrus belt to Mazatlan. And then there is the zebra-striped hearse and its crew of beautiful, sunburned surfers, whose path seems to keep crossing the son-in-law's--and Archer's.
11) The chill
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English
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"In The Chill a distraught young man hires Archer to track down his runaway bride. But no sooner has he found Dolly Kincaid than Archer finds himself entangled in two murders, one twenty years old, the other so recent that the blood is still wet. What ensues is a detective novel of nerve-racking suspense, desperately believable characters, and one of the most intricate plots ever spun by an American crime writer."--The publisher.
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The far side of the dollar , Lew Archer novels volume 12
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Black money , Lew Archer novels volume 13
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Lew Archer novels volume 14
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Vintage Crime/Black Lizard ed.
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English
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The goodbye look , Lew Archer novels volume 15
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The underground man , Lew Archer novels volume 16
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17) Sleeping beauty
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English
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Detective Lew Archer is plunged into a fascinating and intricate case connected to a disastrous oil spill on the Southern California coast. He becomes involved with three generations of the imposing Lennox family whose offshore oil platform caused the spill; and whose young heiress, glimpsed for a haunting moment on the beach-clutching an oil-drenched sea bird in her arms, has disappeared.
18) The blue hammer
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Lew Archer novels volume 18
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English
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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...