Find a Victim: A Lew Archer Novel: 5 - Softcover

MacDonald, Ross

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375708677 ISBN 13: 9780375708671

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2001

Synopsis

Las Cruces wasn't a place most travelers would think to stop. But after private investigator Lew Archer plays the good samaritan and picks up a bloodied hitchhiker, he finds himself in town for a few days awaiting a murder inquest. A hijacked truck full of liquor and an evidence box full of marijuana, $20,000 from a big-time bank heist by a small-time crook, corruption, adultery, incest, prodigal daughters, and abused wives all make the little town seem a lot more interesting than any guide book ever could. And as the murder rate rises, Archer finds himself caught up in mystery where everyone is a suspect and everyone's a victim.

About this title

Review:

"The writing is incisive and perceptive...forceful and fast-past...powerful and personal...a strange and haunting blend."-The New York Times Book Review

"[Ross Macdonald] carried form and style about as far as they would go, writing classic family tragedies in the guise of private detective mysteries."-The Guardian

About the Author:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375708677
• ISBN 13: 9780375708671
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224