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A routine search for a runaway bride entangles Lew Archer in two murders, one 20 years old, the other so recent that the victim's blood is still wet. What ensues is a detective novel with one of the most intricate plots ever spun by an American crime writer. Simultanous trade paper release with Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. 2 cassettes.
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"The American private eye, immortalized by Hammett, refined by Chandler, brought to its zenith by MacDonald." --The New York Times Book Review "An entertainment of almost Byzantine complexity in which practically nothing is as the facts would seem. . . . Highly satisfactory." --The New Yorker "Lew Archer . . . is a crime-fighter of the old school; painstakingly searching out the twisting thread of suspense that leads him from the hint of one complicated drama to another." --Christian Science Monitor
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'Ross Macdonald remains the Grand Master of Southern California noir; the Lew Archer novels providing a template for almost all the crime fiction that followed. Put the Hammett and Chandler away. Macdonald rules.' Tony Bourdain
This is hard boiled crime, and Ross Macdonald at his very best.
Detective Lew Archer has been asked to look for Dolly, a missing wife, but while searching he uncovers other crimes and casualties that had been hiddend for decades.
The Chill covers Macdonald's favourite theme: how the sins of the father shall be visited upon the second and third generations, and how a seed planted by an act decades earlier can sprout in the present, destroying those who are otherwise innocent.
The Chill is extraordinarilly chilling, with a conclusion that will stay with you long after you have finished it.
Ross Macdonald, pseudonym of Kenneth Millar, was one of America's best hard-boiled crime writers, along with Hammett and Chandler, and is often credited in bringing the detective novel into the literary mainstream. Born in California in 1915, he was raised and educated in Canada, and wrote over 25 novels. He was particularly intrigued by personal identity, family relationships, childhood trauma, why men and women need to battle each other, how the past rises to confront the present and the twisted secrets of the human heart. He died in 1983.
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- PublisherVintage Books
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0679768076
- ISBN 13 9780679768074
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In The Chill a distraught young man hires private investigator Lew Archer to track down his runaway bride. But no sooner has he found Dolly Kincaid than Archer finds himself entangled in two murders, one twenty years old, the other so recent that the blood is still wet. What ensues is a detective novel of nerve-racking suspense, desperately believable characters, and one of the most intricate plots ever spun by an American crime writer. In The Chill a distraught young man hires Archer to track down his runaway bride. But no sooner has he found Dolly Kincaid than Archer finds himself entangled in two murders, one twenty years old, the other so recent that the blood is still wet. What ensues is a detective novel of nerve-racking suspense, desperately believable characters, and one of the most intricate plots ever spun by an American crime writer. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780679768074
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Synopsis: In The Chill a distraught young man hires Archer to track down his runaway bride. But no sooner has he found Dolly Kincaid than Archer finds himself entangled in two murders, one twenty years old, the other so recent that the blood is still wet. What ensues is a detective novel of nerve-racking suspense, desperately believable characters, and one of the most intricate plots ever spun by an American crime writer. Review: "The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure," wrote Ross Macdonald in his 1981 Self-Portrait. Nowhere in his work does he better demonstrate this principle than in The Chill, first published in 1964. The plot is one of Macdonald's most masterfully constructed. Private detective Lew Archer is engaged to trace a missing spouse, who has vanished--apparently of her own free will--only a day into her honeymoon. Archer begins pulling at the threads of the case, and by page 25 they're already starting to reveal a deeper, darker story involving two murders 20 years apart. As usual, Macdonald's economical prose propels the reader forward from one action-packed scene to another, while the scenes in turn pile up to paint a rich, complex picture of buried memories, anguished relations between parents and children, the arrogance of the rich, and the search for identity. Then, at the end, one of the author's best surprise reversals changes the picture's colors entirely. Even if you're one of those discerning readers who find Macdonald's lesser work superior to most other mystery writing (as does this reviewer), The Chill stands out among his books. --Nicholas H. Allison. Seller Inventory # 003325
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