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...

Aus dem Flugzeug bemerkt Detektiv Lew Archer einen Ölteppich vor Pacific Point - eigentlich ein Surferparadies - und gerät, als er dem nachgeht, in einen Sumpf von Familiengeheimnissen. Ross Macdonald wird erst heute so richtig entdeckt...

Als dem kalifornischen Kupfermagnaten Jack Biemeyer und seiner Frau ein Gemälde gestohlen wird, wenden sie sich an niemand Geringeren als Lew Archer. Ein Bravourstück des Privatdetektivs: Lew Archer geht über dreißig Jahre in die...

Henry is a monster whose body parts tend to fall off but his right hand helps keep everything together and is his best friendNuntil Henry becomes lazy and his hand decides to leave. A charming tale of friendship, forgiveness, and...

The Drowning Pool von Macdonald, Ross

In The Far Side of the Dollar, private investigator Lew Archer is looking for an unstable rich kid who has run away from an exclusive reform school-and into the arms of kidnappers. Why are his desperate parents so loath to give Archer...

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...