The Barbarous Coast (1956).
By Ross Macdonald.
Published by Knopf
Doubleday Publishing Group.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0307279030
ISBN-13: 978-0307279033
Description:
“Ross Macdonald writes
like a son of a bitch.” – Anthony Boucher.
“Not since the novels of
Nathanael West has the theme of American innocence grinding to a stop at the
polluted waters of the Pacific so consistently reverberated through a body of
writing.” – Detroit News.
The beautiful,
high-diving blonde had Hollywood dreams and stars in her eyes but now she seems
to have disappeared without a trace. Hired by her hotheaded husband and her
rummy “uncle,” Lew Archer sniffs around Malibu and finds the stink of
blackmail, blood-money, and murder on every pricey silk shirt. Beset by dirty
cops, a bumptious boxer turned silver screen pretty boy, and a Hollywood mogul
with a dark past, Archer discovers the secret of a grisly murder that just
won't stay hidden.
Lew Archer navigates
through the watery, violent world of wealth and privilege, in this electrifying
story of obsession gone mad.
“Macdonald
makes a routine story of ocean-side murder among the rich take on a hard-edged,
glistening solidity.” – AudioFile.
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