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...

When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face down in the family pool, the prime suspects are her good-for-nothing son and his seductive teenage daughter. In The Drowning Pool, Lew Archer takes this case in the L.A. suburbs and...

Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her. That was plenty of time for a young girl who wanted to disappear to do so thoroughly--or for someone to make her disappear. Before he can find the...

The desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness and only Detective Lew 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...

Hired by Carl Hallman, the desperate-eyed junkie scion of an obscenely wealthy political dynasty, detective Lew Archer investigates the suspicious deaths of his parents, Senator Hallman and his wife Alicia. Arriving in the sleepy town of...

A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Anniversary Edition of The Chill by Ross Macdonald. Featuring an introduction by James Ellroy.In The Chill a distraught young man hires private investigator Lew Archer to track down his runaway bride. But no...

"Camping im Leichenwagen" ist ein Krimi-Roman von Ross Macdonald, in dem der Privatdetektiv Lew Archer einen komplizierten Fall lösen muss. Die Geschichte beginnt mit einem jungen Paar, das während eines Campingausflugs in einem...

The first book in Ross Macdonald's acclaimed Lew Archer series introduces the detective who redefined the role of the American private eye and gave the crime novel a psychological depth and moral complexity only hinted at before. Like...

The Goodbye Look

"The Way Some People Die" ist der dritte Band der Lew Archer Serie von Ross Macdonald. In diesem klassischen Kriminalroman wird Privatdetektiv Lew Archer beauftragt, eine vermisste junge Frau namens Galatea "Galley" Lawrence zu finden....

Somebody in Pacific Point is guilty of a kidnapping, but what probation officer Howard Cross wants to find most is innocence: in an ex-war hero who has taken a tough manslaughter rap, in a wealthy woman with a heart full of secrets, and...

Während ein Waldbrand die Küste Kaliforniens bedroht, sucht Detektiv Lew Archer verzweifelt nach dem kleinen Ronny Broadhurst. Geht es um Lösegeld oder um Erpressung in einem Ehekrieg? Erst müssen alte Leichen ausgegraben werden, bevor...