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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 behind a bevy of muses, molls, dolls, and dames-each one scrambling for what they thought was rightfully theirs.

About the Author

Ross Macdonald's real name was Kenneth Millar. Born near San Francisco in 1915 and raised in Ontario, 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.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780307279064
Author:
Macdonald, Ross
Publisher:
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Author:
MacDonald, Ross
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - General
Subject:
Private investigators
Subject:
California
Subject:
Mystery fiction
Subject:
Private investigators - California -
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
Lew Archer Novels
Publication Date:
April 2008
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
270
Dimensions:
7.94x5.40x.65 in. .46 lbs.

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