The Chill: A Lew Archer Novel (Thorndike Large Print Cloak & Dagger Series) - Hardcover

MacDonald, Ross

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786204613 ISBN 13: 9780786204618

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 1995

Synopsis

Lew Archer's search for a missing bride turns into a complicated case involving a ten-year-old murder and cover-up, a rich woman with a strong hold on her son, and a dead blonde

About this title

Review:

"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

From the Back Cover:

'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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0786204613
• ISBN 13: 9780786204618
• Binding: Hardcover