The Underground Man - Hardcover

Macdonald, Ross

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394434676 ISBN 13: 9780394434674

Publisher: The Crime Club, Collins, 1971

Synopsis

As a mysterious fire rages through an affluent community in Southern California, Lew Archer tracks a missing--and possibly kidnapped--child and uncovers and entire secret history of wayward parents, wounded offspring, and murder. Along with its merciless suspense, The Underground Man possesses a moral vision as complex as that of a classic Greek tragedy.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this title

Review:

"A more serious and complex writer than Chandler and Hammett ever were."- Eudora Welty

"Ross Macdonald is an important American novelist!"- San Francisco Chronicle

"I should like to venture that Ross Macdonald is a better novelist than either... Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler."- Anthony Boucher, The New York Times Book Review

About the Author:

Ross Macdonald's real name was Kenneth Millar. Born near San Francisco in 1915 and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, 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 Silver Dagger Award. He died in 1983.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Crime Club, Collins
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0394434676
• ISBN 13: 9780394434674
• Binding: Hardcover